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...SENATE. In the old Senate caucus room the ten members of the select Senate committee were questioning CIA officials, including Director William Colby and the deputy director for science and technology, Sayre Stevens, about 11 gm. of shellfish toxin and 8 mg. of cobra venom discovered last May in a CIA storeroom (TIME, Sept. 22). No one could claim that the existence of the poisons as such was all that momentous, but the committee wanted to know why the lethal substances had been preserved. Besides, they made fascinating listening. To dramatize the Senators' concern, Committee Member Walter Mondale...
...gang for devotion. Curb space along the side streets is often at a premium because these diehards use the curbs to elevate one side of the car so they can get underneath to do their work on the spot. And it's not easy to break into the select group who know the owners and always manage to get wind of the best deals and the latest tips on the wrecked 'Vette coming in tomorrow...
Thus, in the words of McCurdy, "a premium is put on just a few select people. This is a different approach than we're accustomed to, and I'm not in favor...
...ultra-realist role is generally assigned to the documentary film because the camera is one of the best mechanisms we have for showing what the eye sees. But each frame has its four boundaries too, a filmmaker has to select a particular subject and determine what angle it's seen from, what kind of light it gets. And in the aesthetics of documentary film, there is a certain amount of selection going on when a camera-man decides how to react to the phenomenon of his mechanical eye being eyed back...
When the closeness of the original vote last November forced the establishment of a Senate select committee to review several hundred contested ballots, Durkin opposed efforts to have the first election voided and a new special election declared, preferring to cast his lot with the Democratic majority in the Senate, and on the committee. Since the first vote count in New Hampshire after the election had shown him the winner, though only by ten votes, this was not an unreasonable position; after all, winning by a little is still winning, as Lyndon Johnson proved in 1948. But when it became...