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Reagan sent a letter to every member of Congress pleading for a yes vote, and House G.O.P. Whip Robert Michel of Illinois twisted Republican arms mercilessly. Eventually, Republicans did support their President by 150 to 36, and the full House passed the debt-ceiling increase by a vote of 305 to 104. In the G.O.P.-controlled Senate, however, Democrats played the same kind of charade that the Republicans had so long used on them. The Democrats pushed a motion to raise the debt ceiling by only $28 billion, rather than Reagan's requested $50 billion, on the specious ground...
...most people can't hack it." Marcia Carter, a Republican civic leader from Houston, agreed. Said she: "The thing that offended me most was the great extravagance at a time when we're supposed to be cutting the budget and showing restraint on all unnecessary frills." Robert Michel, the new Republican minority leader in the House, complained: "At these prices, only those of a certain economic stratum can attend...
...brothers on a rink set up in the backyard by his father, an industrial engineer. As a peewee and junior, he poured the puck into the net so often that the French-speaking Quebecois adopted Bossy, whose parents are English, as one of their own, listing his name as Michel, not Mike, in the newspaper stories extolling his scoring exploits. In four years as a junior player with the Laval Nationals, he scored 308 goals, but was passed over by 14 teams in the amateur draft because it was thought he could not play defense. The Islanders snapped...
...lights go down, the band strikes up, and the pudgy, red-nosed man in striped overalls trots onstage dragging a battered suitcase. France's favorite comedian Michel Colucci-known better as Coluche-is opening his nightly act at Paris' Théâtre du Gymnase. "Hey," Coluche begins in his usual patois, "we've negotiated a fantastic deal with the Soviets: we give them all our wheat, and they let us keep our coal." The son of an Italian immigrant house painter, Coluche, 36, has now become something more than a nightclub satirist puncturing the pretensions...
...policy advisers around Reagan are very different from those who surrounded Carter. Environmentalists and consumer advocates have been replaced by oil company executives and geologists. Reagan's main cicerone through the tangled thicket of energy policy is Michel Halbouty, 71, an unpolished and sometimes profane wildcatter who looks like the suave character actor Vincent Price. Reagan last August appointed the feisty critic of government regulation as chairman of his Energy Policy Task Force. Since then, Halbouty has been able to recruit an impressive roster of corporate chieftains from Shell Oil, Standard Oil of California and Du Pont to serve...