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...heartening as 40 or 50 would have been, and a wash in the Senate is plain discouraging. Despite Tip O'Neill's pro forma yawp that the G.O.P. loss was "disastrous," it wasn't. The Democrats (and moderate Republicans) have simply been given more rope with which to hold the President in check, not to hang themselves or the nation. Profligate Government spending looks no more attractive today than it did two years ago. And the Republicans have been told that yes, there is some patience left for Reaganomics, but 1) that patience is not infinite...
...still open across much of the country, with a too cozy report from the White House on the positive signs that Republicans perceived. CBS erred the other way. The hyperkinetic Rather, who had stoked up on spaghetti for energy, seemed infatuated with homey metaphors ("as long as a well rope") and cutesy topical imagery ("E.T., phone home: [New Mexico Senator and Former Astronaut] Jack Schmitt needs help"). Above all, he appeared hell-bent on spotting a Democratic trend. For Republicans, he said, "it certainly doesn't look good. No way to make it look good." White House Correspondent Lesley...
...justification and its utility have been exposed as quite weak. Out of anger and apathy, more than 500,000 young men have so far avoided the law. Recent indictments may lower that figure, but congressional studies show that it would be almost impossible--not to mention grossly wasteful--to rope in a significant portion of the violators. To continue with the current half-hearted, selective prosecution policy would be unjust...
...rites of initiation. Orientation meetings on subjects like time management. Tryouts for the glee club or the football team. Beer bashes. Join the struggle to save Lebanon; join the struggle to save Israel. At Princeton the freshmen and sophomores meet each other in a traditional series of games and rope pulls known as Cane Spree, which custom decrees that the freshmen lose. At Gettysburg College, the rituals of getting acquainted are even more folksy: a "shoe scramble" determines who will dance with whom. At Carleton, there is a fried-chicken picnic and square dancing on the grassy area known...
With the summer recess only weeks away, three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut got a jump on the opposition last week, with an old schoolyard activity, double dutch. (You know, when the two ropes are going in opposite directions.) Congressman William Ratchford, 48, tried his hand, er, feet, while colleagues Samuel Gejdenson, 34, and Barbara Kennedy, 46, waited their turns. "I could practice for the next 40 years and not be able to double jump," says Ratchford, who had difficulty with but one rope. It's safer inside the halls of Congress where the risks of getting tripped...