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...Laxalt and North Carolina's ailing John East. Last week Maryland's Charles ("Mac") Mathias Jr. said he too would not run. One of the last liberal Republicans in high office, Mathias, 63, was elected to the House in 1960, then won his Senate seat in 1968. As a drafter of many key civil rights laws, he was proudest of his role in that "peaceful revolution." For years he exemplified the style, balance and intellect that were once characteristic of the proud upper chamber. Yet when his own party came to power under Ronald Reagan, he found himself at odds...
Indeed, just about the only headline-catching initiative in the State of the Union speech will be a proposal to put into orbit a permanent space station filled by rotating crews of astronauts. Otherwise, said one speech drafter, "this is not going to be a litany of new programs or a listing of everything that's going on department by department. We told the Cabinet to forget it." Instead, a draft that Reagan sent back to his aides last week, after personally rewriting two-thirds of it, stressed his accomplishments and hopes for the future. One aide summarized...
...outcome just might be no budget resolution at all. Says California Democrat Leon Panetta, chief drafter of the bipartisan moderates' budget: "There is a fifty-fifty chance that nothing will pass." In that case, Congress would have to finance the Government by a series of continuing resolutions, a prescription for administrative chaos since no department would be sure how much money would be available to it, or pass spending bills piecemeal, with no overall guidelines...
...which provides funding and information for students interested in social projects-fears the move will hurt their program by disrupting the group's schedule, Indira Taiwana '82, an E4A member and a drafter of the petition, said yesterday. She added that "a new location may make us less accessible to students...
...first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...