Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of his time in Lamont Library, which has the second greatest collection of microfilmed colonial newspapers in existence. (The best collection is in Worcester, Mass., but Mullen said he will probably not need to use it. Besides, he added, he has "no ambition to hole up in a Howard Johnson's for a week" in Worcester...
...Senate floor in a bright green jogging suit. "It makes good pajamas," he observed. In the corridors and cloakrooms around him, less comfortably attired colleagues padded about in stocking feet or dozed fitfully on cots provided by the Army and Air Force. "Barbaric," croaked rumpled, unshaven Minority Leader Howard Baker as he surveyed the blanket-littered hallways. "An outrage," seconded Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Over the ayes, nays and occasional snores of his bleary-eyed colleagues, Senator Robert Dole told of encountering a woman who had come to observe the all-night session. It was the best show in town...
...perhaps the most remarkable filibuster in Senate history, first-term Democrats James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio turned the chamber into a marathon slumber party that kept the Senators up until dawn the first day, late the following night, and threatened to continue this week. Their stated objective: to block any move to lift the federal ceiling on the price of natural gas sold interstate. The ordeal was fresh evidence that an independent and unpredictable Senate is defying its own leadership and the White House. The week also marked the emergence of Byrd...
Supporters and opponents give conflicting preliminary counts of how the Senators are leaning on ratification. In the end, the fate of the treaties may rest with two key Senators: Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minority Leader Howard Baker. Despite calls from President Carter, both remain uncommitted. Baker told the President: "I have decided not to decide for the moment." Byrd has indicated only that if he makes up his mind to push the treaties, he will do so in an all-out way, directing Senate strategy. If he decides to oppose them, he will cast his negative vote...
...Successful Motivation of Ghetto Students" will be discussed by Samuel Woodward, professor at Howard University, in the Fredrick Douglass Room, on the ground floor of 77 Dunster Street...