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...Seems hizzoner promised back in January that the city's new aquarium would be finished by July 4 or he "would jump in the tank." The Fourth came and went-and no completed aquarium. "I'm a man of my word," said Schaefer, and so, toting a rubber duckie and sporting a shoulder-to-knee Victorian bathing suit and a straw boater, the mayor walked the plank and plunked into the seal pool before 300 spectators. Will the aquarium open by Aug. 8, as now promised? Replied Schaefer: "You're going to see a mayor with tape...
Looking like a youngster's stick-and-rubber-band model, the oddly shaped plane headed slowly down the runway at the small airport near Cormeilles-en-Vexin, a village 25 miles northwest of Paris. It rose only about 50 ft. before sinking haplessly back to the ground. Five more times it tried to fly. On its seventh attempt it was able to get enough lift to make one complete turn before landing again. Finally, on the eighth, it began to rise, climbing in gently looping circles, like a hawk riding an updraft of warm air, to an altitude...
...seems to be crowded most of the day and well into the evening. It's got rubber mats on the floor, the kind they put out at skating rinks to keep blades from scratching the linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough...
...battle gives his supporters effective control of the House as well as the Senate. In the wake of the heated budget fight, some of Reagan's aides crowed about having formed a new "philosophic coalition," and some losing Democrats moaned that the President was converting Congress into a rubber-stamp body that would do whatever he wished...
Rather than become a rubber stamp organization, the Task Force's report to the President seems to have awakened support for continued NEA funding. The House Appropriations subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Sidney Yates (D-Mass), has recommended a budget of $157.5 million, while the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Education have recommended $126.9 million and $119.3 million, respectively. The $88 million figure seems to have bitten the dust, but the precise amount will not be determined until the Senate convenes at the end of July. The OMB still insists it wants deep slashes...