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...Seldom Used Rule. In fact, national health insurance has no chance of passage this year. Invoking a seldom used rule, Republicans objected to the committee's decision to hold hearings while the Senate was in session. As a result, the hearings have now been recessed until January, thus precluding any action on health insurance until the new Congress takes over...
...retreat to Vermont or join the Weathermen. Mungo seems to be an individual with a talent for riding the crest of his time, just far enough ahead of everybody to have fun and make trouble, and just canny enough to forego the martyrdom of regimentation or incarceration. "I seldom try to convince anybody of anything (except perhaps in print), cause if they don't already know, I figure I can't tell 'em. If it isn't happening to you right now, I can't save you, brother," he writes...
...SELDOM has a newly arrived diplomat presented credentials under conditions as bizarre as those that faced U.S. Ambassador L. Dean Brown in Amman last week. Brown, who had been pinned down for seven days in the beleaguered American embassy as civil war raged outside, clambered aboard a Jordanian armored personnel carrier and was whisked to Al-Hummar Palace on the fringe of the city. There, King Hussein accepted the envoy's credentials and discussed emergency U.S. assistance for Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days...
...voted on any specific measure. Senators and their voting records are much better publicized. Therefore it may be that Representatives could enjoy a kind of independence through relative anonymity, a greater freedom than Senators to "vote their consciences." It is a freedom that is probably seldom savored, however. For one thing, pressures from well informed lobbies-such as labor and farm groups-are inhibiting. Besides, no politician worthy of the name can admit that most of his constituents neither know nor care...
...organization and strikingly handsome. But students soon gave it an E for effort -which is a failing grade. They complained of faulty air conditioning, inadequate room for their work and poor lighting. Before the building was gutted by fire last year, its windows were filthy. They had, in fact, seldom been washed: the architect had neglected to provide any simple, economical way for washers to get to the great glass panes...