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This second congressional battle of the budget promises to be tough. It could, in fact, crack the solid Republican support that Reagan enjoyed this summer. Conservative hawks might balk at reductions in projected military spending. Other Republicans might flinch at deeper cuts in already lean social programs. Observes Democratic Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona: "There are 20 or 30 liberal Republicans in the House who are embarrassed with their constituencies. They can't go on [supporting Reagan] forever...
...blame them? In terms of popularity (though not, certainly, artistry), the years between "You Really Got Me" in 1964 and their live album, "One More for the Road," released last year, were lean ones for them. Of the three surviving British Invasion rock bands, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones and the Who, the Kinks are perhaps most surprising in their longevity. Any band must surmount numerous pressures to last as long as these three have, but only the Kinks have done so in the face of wavering and often scarce popularity. The Stones and the Who have remained...
Jesse Helms is tall (6 ft. 1 in.) but not lean, heavy (193 Ibs.) but not flabby, except for some droop below the chin. A sparse crop of fine gray hair sweeps back from his forehead, and the rest is snipped short. His black-rimmed glasses give him a slightly spooked, owlish demeanor. Helms walks with a relaxed spring, his bearing loose and eager if not quite vigorous. His appearance is scrupulously uneccentric, clean and blue-suit respectable, more like a civic-minded small-town bank president than a U.S. Senator...
...tail. The truly sportif, however, remain undaunted. Many folks come to Harvard unschooled in the joys of college hockey, but one winter usually enlightens them This is not the NFL--no fighting here. Rather, it is clean, fast, exciting hockey and Harvard has a grand tradition. Times had been lean until last year, until the icemen (as they are known in Crimson headlines) pulled off the upset of the year in the Beanpot, the annual Boston-area collegiate championship at the Boston Garden. Coach Bill Cleary's boys should improve substantially this year, and provide their partisans with more triumphs...
...lean federal budget, pork-barrel politics as usual...