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...s.o.b. The ensuing fistfight was broken up by Public Safety Director Floyd Mann. While state troopers moved into the chambers to prevent other fights, the filibuster droned on. Filibusterers even refused to sit down long enough for the legislature to pass necessary last minute appropriations bills. When the marathon ended after a record 96 hours, the session was over-and no money had been appropriated for the operation of state agencies after Sept...
...bulky (5 ft. 11½ in., 187 Ibs.) frame and his reddish, whisk-broom thatch are a familiar sight in the Capitol's corridors. In turn, Larry has made it his business to meet nearly all the inhabitants of Capitol Hill at a marathon succession of cocktail parties and at leisurely Sunday brunches on the O'Brien's Georgetown terrace, with Wife Elva presiding at meals that include O'Brien potatoes. But O'Brien has remembered the Kennedy warning: although he is liked by nearly everyone, Republican as well as Democrat, on the Hill...
Though the French boast more bicycle races than any other nation-close to 300 a year-the Tour de France is the most expensive, prolonged and perilous marathon of them all. This year's Tour pitted 132 brawny-thighed riders against a brutal 2,750-mile course. Starting at Rouen, the race cut through Belgium, leaped the Alps into Italy, streaked across the south of France into the Pyrenees, and wound northeast along the stately Loire to Paris. The sunburned, dust-caked riders quit at 5 p.m. each day, laying over at night in Tricolor-draped towns that paid...
...Raises & Pensions. Most tedious task on the agenda was ratification of 118 118 constitutional amendments, a marathon polling performance that took two days and a four-hour night session. As constitution-committee chairman, Hoffa had dictated the changes. As convention chairman, he conducted the loud ceremony of their approval. With one hand on his gavel and the other on switches that controlled floor microphones, the Teamster boss directed his delegates through 92 pages of "reform." Among the amendments: ¶A Hoffa pay raise from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, plus unlimited expenses, making him labor's highest...
...Leningrad Kirov Opera Ballet Company, happily joined the packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer Miki Sekers, finally got back to Kensington Palace just before dawn...