Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Capitol Hill has not been suddenly afflicted with laziness; the slow pace is calculated. Congress has received the message from the voters back home that they have had a surfeit of experiment and spending. They need a breather. Explains Byrd: "Congress this year is reflecting a general feeling on the part of the American people that there have been enough new programs." Echoes O'Neill, among the stoutest of liberals: "The public wants to cut the bloat out of Government." Montana's newly elected Democratic Senator Max Baucus sums up: "The country is tired of rules, regulations, statutes...
...industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people have. I say, let's prove them wrong." Ultimately, oilmen may find it easier to live with a tax that they do not want than a fire-breathing President...
...national conference sponsored by a coalition of gay male and lesbian organizations in Philadelphia voted to stage a march on Washington on Oct. 14 to urge passage of gay-rights legislation across the country. But many gays shudder at the prospect of more militant and flamboyant homosexuals besieging Capitol Hill in full view of the TV cameras. The opponents of the march fear it will cause a damaging backlash. Says Doug Wright, a Washington, D.C., editor: "That's like handing Anita Bryant a victory she can't get anywhere else...
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...Heartbreak Hill a fat man stood on a truck with a microphone blasting away. "You have just climbed 90 feet and it's all downhill from here--less than five miles to go." But those last few miles are eternal. Struggling down Commonwealth Avenue in a daze, the Green Line trolley beckons temptingly...