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...bitter and warm, is served immediately and may be immediately sipped. The mao-tai and the wine, however, are reserved for toasts, which soon ensue, copiously, capaciously and loquaciously. Most are raised - and why not? - to Friendship Between Our Peoples. One of the first words the F.F. learns is kan-pei! Bottoms up! (literally, dry glass). Several hosts between toasts indicate that it is inadvisable to take only a sip of the rocket juice. "You have to drink in one gulp," advises one Responsible Person. "Otherwise you get headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

With renewed party support, topped off by an endorsement by Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Brooke has stressed his seniority and record in attempting to erase the effects of the court case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primaries: A Glance at the Candidates | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

...both committees, only one survived the reorganization. The Special Committee on Aging was made a permanent Senate special committee by a unanimous vote on the Senate floor (a few Senators, however, abstained). Encouraged by this vote, Nutrition Committee Chairman George McGovern (D.-S. Dak.), Sens. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.), Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), Henry Bellmon (R.-Okla.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and others fought to extend the Nutrition Committee on a year-by-year basis, as had been done in the past. Nutritions ranking minority member Charles Percy (R.-Ill.) made the impassioned plea...

Author: By Matthew D. Slater, | Title: Protecting the Poor: The Fight for the Senate Nutrition Committee | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

...native of Atchinson, Kan., Manglesdorf has taught at Harvard since the 1930s. Between 1945 and 1967, he served as director of Harvard's Botanical Museum...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Jordan, Six Others Get Honorary Degrees | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...Finance Committee, a group studded with stars like Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.) and chaired by Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), then voted unanimously to send Champion's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation to confirm...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Making the Big Time, Finally | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

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