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...second difficulty is outlining. In order to keep the question and scratch paper in front of you, it is necessary to shove the typewriter to one side or to change seats. A third possibility, writing while leaning to the left, can be used on shorter tests...
...Scratch & Claw. The Senate, with 64 Democrats and 36 Republicans, is likely to go along with the President on most issues, just as it did in 1961. The House is a different matter. There, though Demo crats ostensibly outnumber Republicans 263 to 174, power is actually divided be tween a conservative coalition of about 180 Republicans and Southern Democrats and about 180 members who can be expected to go along with most Administration proposals. That leaves some 70-75 "uncommitted" members among whom the Administration must scratch and claw to put together a winning margin. In 1962, collecting those uncommitted...
...Shor's reflected the old: a huge circular bar, a wood-paneled main room, dining room upstairs, hatchicks who look like ladykins. Chief added feature: a 400-car garage on the top seven floors, which will enable customers, in the words of a Shor lieutenant, "to scratch their fenders and get loaded without ever leaving the premises...
...Buick signed him up with one of the largest contracts in the history of TV-$11 million for three seasons. At that moment, Gleason was the biggest thing in show business. But, as an accomplished catnapper, he fell asleep at the signing table and had to be awakened to scratch his signature on the contract...
...drawing boards hold greater changes. Beginning in early 1963, Chicago will build a 32-story, $67 million Civic Center. Using his familiar materials of glass and steel, Chicago Architect Mies van der Rohe has designed a 30-story. $50 million U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building. Starting from scratch, the University of Illinois will build a completely self-contained campus for its Chicago division that will eventually be used by 9,000 students...