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...House of Representatives be reduced from 240 to 160 members. Volpe himself has yet to explain just what the benefit of such a reduction would be. It would not change the power structure of the legislature; and since so little time is spent in debate, it would not hasten the business of the House. The only possible effect it would have would be to create unequal apportionment...
Recognition came late for Sculptor David Smith, and neither his manner, often truculent, nor his medium - gigantic welded iron and steel objects -did much to hasten his fame. Awarded a $1,000 prize at the 1961 Carnegie International, he refused the money, suggested that it be used by the museum to buy some art. "Sculpture has been a whore for many ages," he would...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Airdrop at Arnhem" recounts the massive Allied paratroop attack behind Nazi lines in Holland on Sept. 17, 1944, and reviews the tragic failure of this bold plan to hasten the end of World War II. Walter Cronkite revisits the area where, as a war correspondent, he parachuted with the 101st Airborne Division, and also interviews the intelligence chief of the Dutch underground. Repeat...
Making matters even more complicated, some drugs increase the potency of enzyme activity. This leads to the bizarre situation in which a heart patient needs more of the anticlotting coumarin drugs if he is also taking barbiturates to allay his anxiety. The "barbies" hasten the breakdown of coumarin, and they have the same effect on some antiepilepsy and antifungal drugs...
...experiments demonstrate, Payne reports, that insects and their larvae hasten decomposition not only by feeding on the carcass, but also by spreading bacteria and by the simple mechanical process of burrowing through the flesh. "If it weren't for insects," Entomologist Payne says, "we'd be up to our necks in dead bodies...