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...proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster of radic-libs cowers as a troglodytic terrorizer in tailored twill cracks a whip over their heads. At last the President slips into the sleep of serenity and contentment...
...political jab at Vellucci, Mahoney pointed at several television cameras and observed "this glare that has invaded the Chamber." He cautioned, "It does not always follow that the headlines produce the results...
Gibson disclosed the figure at a meeting of Newark's Chamber of Commerce, adding, "I challenge you not to offer any money to anyone in the city administration for the next four years." Gibson, whose annual salary is $35,000, said he would not know what to do with the bribes: "I couldn't put it under the mattress and I couldn't put it in the bank...
...tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape: then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under the bandage...
...warned Thomas Paine that the English police were going to arrest him for sedition in time for Paine to escape by boat to France. In the same tradition, Ginsberg braved clubs and mace to chant and speak at the Pentagon, Lincoln Park, and even in Judge Hoffman's Star Chamber...