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...green leather benches on each side of the chamber and overflowed into the aisles. The members on the two front benches faced each other like soldiers lined up for battle, with the pro-Market Tories of Prime Minister Edward Heath confronting the mostly antiMarket Laborites of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. On each side, groups of party rebels sat grim-faced and silent...
...struggle was a deceptively soft-spoken black woman, Mrs. Patricia Roberts Harris, a former dean of the Howard University School of Law and Lyndon Johnson's ambassador to Luxembourg. Chosen by the regulars for her race and her sex, Mrs. Harris was matched against Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, nominator of Eugene McCarthy, onetime presidential contender in his own right and a tough, no-nonsense reformer. The outcome of the National Committee's voting was lopsided: 72 for Mrs. Harris, 31 for Hughes...
...Viet Nam, the fact of 5,000,000 unemployed Americans. The room was still as he read his ten-paragraph withdrawal statement beneath television lights. Half a dozen of Bayh's Democratic Senate colleagues were on hand -Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Iowa's Harold Hughes, Minnesota's Walter Mondale, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Mississippi's John Stennis and Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. None of Bayh's erstwhile rivals for the presidential nomination appeared, however...
DRAMA: This is not a time of powerful playwrights with bold convictions. Audiences must settle for privacy of vision and a distinctively personal voice. England's Harold Pinter has both. His famous pauses are elusive in meaning and menacing in their silence, which perhaps befits an age of uncertainty. In Old Times, he returns to his favorite human geometry, the triangle (in this case, two women and a man), and examines the tricks that life plays on memory and memory plays on itself. The trio will be acted by Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Rosemary Harris. From the front...
...these appointments; that the ABA Committee will not hesitate to disapprove as many of the names proposed as its investigation warrants; and that the Senate--also entrusted with a constitutional stewardship--will hold the President to the appropriate standards in considering confirmation. Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Gary Bellow Harold J. Berman Abram Chayes Morris L. Cohen Vern Countryman Jerome P. Facher Richard H. Field William B. Gould Charles M. Haar Livingston Hall David R. Herwitz Phillip B. Heymann Morton J. Horwitz Benjamin Kaplan Lance Liebman Louis Loss Karen S. Metzger Frank I. Michelman Arthur R. Miller Charles R. Nesson Albert...