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...delay the committee's work. The debate continued for nearly six hours, with four Democrats at one point joining a solid Republican lineup for including the St. Clair choices. That produced a 21-to-17 vote in St. Clair's favor. But then Chairman Rodino called a recess, caucused with the committee Democrats and persuaded two of the four (Don Edwards of California and James Mann of South Carolina) to switch their votes. The resulting 19-19 tie killed the motion. By a vote of 33 to 5, the committee then approved the two-list compromise. Once...
...leisurely, three-day-a-week schedule. Members straggled into their seats on the two-tiered walnut dais in Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building, many often late for sessions that began at 9:30 a.m. and usually ended by 5:15 p.m. They had to recess for every quorum and roll call on the House floor, and also broke for 1¾-hr. lunches...
...most labyrinthine art trial in decades goes into summer recess this week. Since it began in mid-February in Manhattan, the "Rothko case" has involved seven different teams of lawyers, produced more than 8,000 pages of transcript and run up a probable $500,000 in costs-and the case for the defense has not yet begun. From the plaintiffs' side, at least, the cast is Dickensian: the suicide artist, the wronged daughter, a brace of crooked or bungling trustees and a villain-Machiavelli and Scrooge McDuck rolled up in one banker's suit...
...University gave Harvard students an extra week of vacation at the Christmas recess to insure that the University could get by on its small January fuel quota. But this schedule change pales in comparison with the three month shutdown the energy crises forced upon neighboring Tufts University...
...bubble was equipped, however, with an automatic pressure regulator which increased the pressure inside as winds outside grew stronger. This enabled the structure to better withstand high winds. Although the pressure in the bubble during the Christmas recess had been reduced, the official University report states that the automatic system pumped more pressure into the bubble as the winds from the winter ice storm increased...