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...Illinois and Jacob Javits of New York, argued that such protectionism represents a historic reversal of U.S. trade policy and threatens to upset international markets. They vowed that it would not pass, and they were willing to talk it to death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into a nightmarish omnibus bill by the Senate Finance Committee. The measure also includes a politically popular increase in Social Security benefits and elements of the President's welfare-reforming Family Assistance Plan. Unless the Senators somehow find a way to extract the trade measure, the entire package is likely...
Foster and the realigned Crimson offense will have to contend with a defense that, despite last weekend's nightmarish performance, is basicallysound. The Knights have eight defensive starters back from a team that went 6-3 last season, including a 29-0 victory over Princeton in football's centennial game...
...women but has been granted immunity in return for her testimony.* According to the prosecution, Mrs. Kasabian went along when Miss Tate and her house guests were murdered but took no part in the killings. Through her Bugliosi will lay before the jury the details of the bizarre and nightmarish crimes...
...measure how radical we are by how nihilistic we are," Mailer said. "This is a nightmarish time for rational thought...
...frequently from the shrill to the booming, from woman to man, from instinct to rationale, without once adapting a coherent point of view. In time, the narcissistic opus becomes like its author, who ultimately lived down to Katherine Anne Porter's summation. He gives, she said, "the nightmarish impression of the bisexual snail squeezed into its narrow house making love to itself...