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When the vote was held Thursday afternoon, the Reagan compromise on taxes was rejected, 11 to 6. Chiles offered the Democratic revenue-raising figures, and they were approved, 13 to 4. Only three Republicans (Armstrong, Indiana's Dan Quayle and Iowa's Charles Grassley) and Democrat Fritz Hollings, who favors a freeze on most federal spending, voted against the package. Domenici claimed that he had cut a deal with Chiles only to move the issue to the Senate floor. There he intends to fight against the tax increases that his own committee had just approved. Despite this rationale...
With those words the first American to orbit the earth became the sixth announced candidate, and perhaps the last, to enter the race for the 1984 Democratic nomination. Glenn's Senate colleague, Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, earlier in the week joined the field, which already included former Vice President Walter Mondale, Colorado Senator Gary Hart, California Senator Alan Cranston and former Florida Governor Reubin Askew...
...Chicago Symphony. Winner and still champion, Solti's virtuosic ensemble has been the finest in the U.S. for more than a decade, and was often close to the top under earlier music directors like Fritz Reiner (1953-62). The orchestra's strengths are its burnished brass and taut, lean, precise string section, which give its performances a crispness and vitality that are the despair of its rivals. "I have never had a better-spirited orchestra than this one," says Solti, 70. "If they have a conductor they respect, they will go through hell for him." The Chicago spirit...
...roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when Fritz was ten, his father wanted...
...used to Mondale's early dire warnings of the political consequences of decisions. The Israelis and the Jewish lobby especially unsettled him. When Carter decided against providing the Turks with some promised military equipment, thus pleasing their Greek adversaries, Mondale was exultant about not losing the Greek lobby. "Fritz was shamelessly political," recalls one Carter Cabinet officer. The President had only one serious criticism of Mondale. "Fritz doesn't step up to the tough ones," he often told intimates...