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SLUGGISH, vacillating and quarrelsome throughout its two years of life, the 91st Congress could not even muster the means to die gracefully. It did not so much expire as commit suicide, victim of its ineffectual procedures, disagreement over priorities and inter-chamber acrimonies...
...Lerner," he said, "is most talented and an excellent classicist. If you have to make a musical version of Lolita, he is the one to do it." Composer John Barry, who scored the James Bond films, Midnight Cowboy and has won three Oscars, also passed Nabokov's muster...
...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee is asking Cronin harder questions and using all the confrontation tactics they can muster to ask them. Monday they held a rally in front of City Hall demanding an end to all evictions and a further downward adjustment of rents. Within the CTOC there are varying degrees of militancy. Bill Cunningham, one of the leaders of the CTOC, hasrefused since May to pay the $25 rent increase that his landlord demanded. After three attempts his landlord has finally succeeded in evicting him, but it took twenty police armed with clubs to do so. The tall, gaunt...
Harvard, on the other hand. was preparing for Dartmouth during the first weeks of practice. That was evident in Saturday's 89-78 triumph over the Big Green. But whether or not the Crimson can muster the same determination in tonight's 8:30 p.m. contest in the Boston Garden could be the deciding factor...
...Czechoslovaks so painfully learned in 1968, the ultimate trial of a reform plan in the East bloc is whether it passes muster with the Kremlin. Since Hungary is embarked on an economic reform that in some respects is similar to Prague's ill-fated experiment, Hungarians and visitors alike were eager to hear what Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev would say about the Budapest plan of instituting private-enterprise incentives within a Communist-controlled society. His verdict: thumbs up. As long as the Communist Party retains its supremacy in all aspects of the country's life, he said...