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...trying to head off trouble. He pleads with recalcitrant Senators for support, does favors to pacify them, like scheduling their pet bills, or tries to put off action on controversial legislation until antagonists compromise on their own. During last year's session, Byrd's first as majority leader, he ran the chamber with a firm and sure hand that had not been seen since the days when Lyndon Johnson was majority leader...
...average Super Bowl patron will, by conservative estimate, spend $100 a day. The dome last year directly generated more than $2 million in tax revenues, plus an estimated $3 million from a 4% city hotel/motel tax that was levied to help pay for the behemoth. Thus while the building ran $5.5 million in the red. it brought in more than lagniappe to the local economy...
DIED. Max Ascoli, 79, educator, author and editor of the Reporter, a distinguished but now defunct fortnightly journal of ideas; in Manhattan. An Italian antiFascist, Ascoli was jailed briefly under Benito Mussolini's regime and immigrated to the U.S. in 1931. The Reporter, which he founded in 1949, ran vigorous stories criticizing the China lobby, McCarthyism and governmental misuse of wiretapping. As staunchly anti-Communist as he was antiFascist, Ascoli supported the growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the '60s, thereby alienating many liberal readers and leading to the demise of his magazine...
Northeastern does not have the talent for. In fact, the places where they do show some weakness, such as the dash and the hurdles, have not been among the Crimson's strongest suits, although there has been some improvement in these areas. At the Brown meet, for example, Harvard ran one-two-three in the dash and took second and third in the hurdles. This kind of good news is important because it is in events like these that the Huskies will have to be beaten for Harvard to clinch the meet...
Mary Howard ran the quarter mile in 64 seconds for first place. Howard then joined Posey Brian, Anne Fine and Ellen Hart in running the mile relay...