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...Pumping Iron] is a very good film, beautifully shot and edited, intelligently structured and?to risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term?charming. Yes, charming ... The film's second, longer half deals with professional-level competition in the Mr. Olympia contest. The filmmakers have found an ideal protagonist ... 'the one and only' Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on a seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, HE EXUDES THE EASY CONFIDENCE OF A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS KNOWN HE WILL...
...SENATOR OLYMPIA SNOWE: My compliments to you, Mr. Chairman, on recognizing me. That is all I have...
...trip to his home in Olympia, Wash., once possible by car, now requires a cross-country flight...
SWORN IN. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE, 57, Democrat; as Governor of Washington; after an agonizingly close contest in which her opponent, Republican Dino Rossi, won the initial vote and a subsequent machine recount, only to lose to Gregoire by 129 votes in a hand recount; in Olympia. Irate Republicans refused to applaud at the ceremony, and Rossi has launched a court challenge, seeking a new election...
...Reid style can be found in his handling of that hottest of issues, abortion. He opposes it except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. But he has leavened that position with vehement support for contraception. He joined with Maine Republican Olympia Snowe to offer a bill ordering private health-insurance plans to cover birth control. He successfully filibustered for including such coverage in federal-employee health plans. Kate Michelman, former head of NARAL Pro-Choice America, says, "I'm honored to be his friend...