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Opposition Leaders Newt Gingrich of Georgia and John Rousselot of California, both Republicans, also had an impressive lobbying force behind them. Among the heavyweights: the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Federation of Independent Business and the staff of the 250,000-member U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As the debate wound down, Gingrich and Rousselot counted only 139 votes for the bill. But despite their well-organized efforts, presidential persuasiveness turned out to be more powerful. When the tally was over, 103 Republicans and 123 Democrats voted for the tax increase, eight more than a majority. Opposing the bill were...
...Newt Gingrich, Representative...
...Virginia Shapard, a wealthy Democrat, lost her race for Congress in Georgia when Republican Opponent Newt Gingrich, a former college professor, accused her of condoning welfare cheating and being out of touch with average voters. Said one newspaper: "If elected, she will be apparently leaving her four young children at home to be reared by the servants...
Caldron Cookery: An Authentic Guide for Coven Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name...
...dramatist to make such an unquestioning life completely credible to a contemporary audience. To be sure, there is one angry, rebellious black youth who stalks the community giving the sweaty white lawmen a mean time, but he is portrayed as a vicious psychotic who can easily be vanquished by Newt's storybook morality and radiant goodness...