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Medenica, a former driver, knows all too well about what that one little mistake can mean. On Labor Day, 1976, while in third place in New England Formula Ford standings, Medenica crashed in a practice session at Lime Rock, plowing into another car that had spun out into a blind spot over a rise. Medenica's fragile car collapsed around his legs, fracturing both ankles. It was five months before he could walk without rutches, and he may still need another operation to regain full use in his right foot...
Philip B. Heymann, professor of Law, who will conduct the "Survival" session with State Rep. Barney Frank '61, said yesterday that, unlike other programs for mayor-elects, this one will include case studies, such as the issue of charter reform in Boston...
...remember in this room last May," he said with a smile, "someone asked me if my Administration was all style and no substance. Lately the criticisms have been that there's too much substance and not enough style." Yet the much-maligned 95th has had a productive first session, and it stands a good chance of atoning in 1978 for some of its miscues...
Both chambers began the session by reforming their ways of doing business. The Senate streamlined its committee structure; it also served notice that tyrannical committee chairmen, once chosen on the basis of seniority alone, could be replaced. The House similarly undermined entrenched committee bosses and shifted power to the Speaker. Democrat Tip O'Neill used that leverage to become the strongest Speaker since "Uncle" Joe Cannon, some 65 years ago. Both House and Senate also adopted new ethics rules limiting the outside income that members were allowed to earn...
...pivotal figure in two pieces of legislation that may prove to be the most important of Jimmy Carter's first term in the White House: energy conservation and tax reform. Cater has delayed his tax package until next year so that the energy plan can be completed this session, but when the proposals do get to Congress, Long will probably have more to do with their final shape than any other legislator. Right now, as the Senate's spokesman in the Joint House-Senate Committee on Energy, he is at the center of the struggle to hammer out an energy...