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...public works measures. Both may soon involve him in major conflicts. Taxes. With his impeccable sense of timing, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long finally released his committee's version of the tax bill. Since Congress is trying to adjourn by October 14, Senators had little time to digest the fine print in the complicated act, and Long would just as soon they did not. As he once told a Senator fretting over the meaning of a provision in a tax bill: "If we waited for you to understand this bill, it would never be passed...
...speeches with chats disconcerted some. Commented Robert Sole, Vatican correspondent for France's leftist intellectual daily Le Monde: The audiences "attracted the immediate sympathy of the public but had disappointed and sometimes worried church officials. The Pope expressed a philosophy of existence that recalled on occasion the Reader's Digest: common sense, a little simple at that, which broke with the grand theological flights of oratory of Paul VI. Visibly, he did not have the culture and the intellectual training of his predecessor...
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...Deluxe (T.D., for the football fans out there) is a classic, and the hot pastrami and cheese ranks up there with motherhood and the flag as something worth fighting for. The decor is, in a word, crummy (in two words, very crummy), but you can go somewhere else to digest, right? Two warnings: stay away from the place at lunchtime, when the Governor often has to call in the National Guard to keep the crowds in line, and beware of the pinball machines, which are about as generous and benevolent as Meldrim Thomson. But by all means don't pass...
Tommy's Lunch--Mt. Auburn St. The best atmosphere around, which your small intestine may not really appreciate, and some decent food to boot. For 20 years, Tommy Stefanian has provided pearls of his distinctive Armenian logic along with his peerless cheesesteak subs (the latter are much easier to digest), and has attracted a crowd of admirers and hangers-on without equal in the Square. Perhaps it's the pinball machines, which are the focus of truly intense play late into the evening, or maybe it's the extraordinarily friendly counter help; it's probably the menu, because once...