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Visions of Blame. In order to drama tize the vision of an obstructionist Congress, he hoped to get a favorable Senate vote on medicare, then blame the well-known coalition of Republicans and con servative Democrats in the House for kill ing it. He had good reason to believe that he could: the 64-36 Democratic majority in the Senate usually makes that body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage...
...earthly comforts, the industry is concentrating on centrally located, massproduced air conditioning: last month the Hartford Gas Co. inaugurated the U.S.'s first utility-operated air-condition ing plant, which will offer metered air conditioning to any building in the entire downtown area. In Washington a builder has installed a central system for 134 new town houses, piping chilled and hot water into each and dispensing with the need for furnaces, hot-water heaters and chimneys...
Sack staffs his theaters carefully and keeps the help honest by ringing in an occasional private detective disguised as a moviegoer to make sure the audience count is correct. He is insistent on cleanliness, will berate usherettes for not pick ing up paper from the aisles and scold janitors when he finds dust in rest rooms. Sack likes to roam his lobbies, reminding women patrons that "this place is clean enough to bring your children to, right?" He has been known to step out of his $15,000, chauffeur-driven Cadillac in front of a Sack theater to hustle customers...
...Rebild National Park in Jutland to keynote the annual Independence Day Festival there. Speaking before an audience of 40,000 in Rebild's natural amphitheater, the former Vice President drew cheers with an appeal for strength and unity in the face of Communism. Scarcely had he finished speak ing than tragedy struck one of the men who shared the platform with him. Softspoken, white-haired Henry R. Henius, 78, son of Dr. Max Henius, a Danish-born biochemist who founded the festival in 1912 to promote Danish-U.S. friendship, gripped the hand of a bishop's wife...
Condemned Unheard. The National Assembly considered itself deeply insulted when Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville made an appearance to defend De Gaulle's concept of a Europe consist ing of federated but sovereign states, and stipulated that the plan could only be debated, not voted upon. All ten Communist Deputies flatly refused to attend the session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members...