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...endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still remains uncertain. But now Byrd will be using his proven talents as a cloakroom cajoler and persuader on the undecided Senators; among them he hopes to find the dozen or so additional votes that SALT II seems to need...
After an hour, the royals leave the crowd for tea in their crown-topped pavilion. At last, guests begin to wander about the 39 sylvan acres in the heart of London and marvel at the elegance of the splendidly carpeted "cloakroom" facilities. By the curving lake they search for the celebrated flamingos, and in the scalpel-trimmed rose garden compare the Queen's blooms with their own in Surrey...
...flagrant racist. Well and good, and done with exceptional verity as a result of Alda's research on Capitol Hill. But Tynan gets sidetracked by some unexpected motions. Waylaid by Meryl Streep, as an activist lawyer, he ends up in bed with her, swilling beer and swapping cloakroom stories...
...would like to "minimize the requirement for nuclear power" and to shift toward "alternate energy supplies." Criticized Rally Organizer Donald Ross: "We told him he had to take a much more decisive antinuclear position." Translating such views into campaign terms, one Congressman predicted to colleagues in the House cloakroom: "Every one of us who doesn't come out against nuclear energy is going to face at least one candidate in the primaries who will make that his only issue...
...desire for a federal enclave free of partisan politics. Instead, they said, it would give even greater power to entrenched federal bureaucrats. In addition, they complained that the rights of a state would be given to a city. Other objections were unstated, at least in public. The District, complained cloakroom critics, suffered from the "four too's": too black, too liberal, too Democratic, too urban. Nor has home rule proved an unmixed blessing. Mayor Washington's administration has been marred by inefficiency and scandal...