Word: nine
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Since the session started on Jan. 15, a grand total of nine bills has passed. Only two were of any consequence, and circumstances forced both of them on Congress: one readjusted U.S. relations with Taiwan, the other raised the ceiling on the national debt at the eleventh hour, allowing the Treasury to pay its bills. "This is the slowest Congress I can remember," says Illinois Congressman John Anderson, an 18-year Republican veteran. "The activity on the floor has been almost nil." Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt: "It's just been eerie around here...
What fascinated reporters in Africa more than Brown's remarks, however, was his traveling companion: Rock Star Linda Ronstadt. For some time, the bachelor politician, 41, and the singer, nine years his junior, have been linked in gossip columns, and it was even rumored that they were going to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to get married. The singer's arrival in Africa guaranteed enormous press coverage for Brown -but perhaps not entirely the kind he wanted. Reporters and photographers camped outside hotel rooms and mobbed the couple whenever they appeared. (Their hotel cottage in Kenya...
When the Ohio is fully outfitted and commissioned in November 1980, its 154 officers and sailors will be the envy of the Navy's submariners. The crew will live in nine-man rooms instead of mass dormitories, each room with a table and lounge. At every bunk will be a stereo headset for listening to music. These amenities are important. Explains Rear Admiral Charles Larson, the Trident program coordinator: "The physical limit on how long you can stay out on a nuclear submarine is determined by the food and other consumables on board -and the psychological limit...
...Jets and the Sharksbattling for Eastern League turf in high stirrups. The war clubs came out and the ball never rested. The war clubs let loose and the Soldiers Field basepaths never settled. And when time and the fates finally called a halt to this nine-inning diamond joust, 28 hits had fallen, 20 runs had scored, and Harvard had beaten Penn yesterday, 11-9, with a final inning choreographed by Jerome Robbins and written by Horatio Alger...
...Penn's Panser Division. Dennis Karbach and Tom Olszak, touched Brown for back-to-back homers and re-knotted the score at nine. Two batters later Mike Derle ripped a single off Brown, the 15th hit that the senior captain had yielded in the contest, and forced Ron Stewart in from the bullpen. Stewart got the final out of the ninth and, consequently, the win to even his record...