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...SLUGGISH, vacillating and quarrelsome throughout its two years of life, the 91st Congress could not even muster the means to die gracefully. It did not so much expire as commit suicide, victim of its ineffectual procedures, disagreement over priorities and inter-chamber acrimonies...
...they felt frustrated. Saxbe, who knows how to exert power as a result of his experience as a speaker of the Ohio house of representatives, complained last summer that "anyone who thinks being a Senator is fun just hasn't had much." Cranston, equally irked at the sluggish pace, suggested to him: "Quit complaining; let's see what we can do about this...
...prepare for a match by using calisthenics; he does Hatha yoga postures. "They loosen me up, and calm me down. I want to eliminate all distractions before I walk out on the strip. I also float and dance because I'm a vegetarian, and I don't feel as sluggish," Keller said...
Today Johnson gets mixed results from his old products. Sales of Ultra Wave, including the original hair straightener, remain sluggish, but the similar Ultra Sheen line for women is doing well. "Women are too feminine to stay with one style forever," Johnson explains. "With a hair relaxor like Ultra Sheen, a woman has a choice- she can go natural, then move to a bouffant style and go back again...
...free economy, conflicts between powerful competing forces are inevitable. U.S. labor has won many of its greatest advances only after striking. Yet the auto walkout comes at a particularly bad time, when the nation is troubled and its economy is sluggish. If the pessimists are proved correct and the strike drags on, it may well become a cause celebre for organized labor, drawing to the workers' side protest movements of all sorts. The real tragedy of the bitter battle is that it hits the U.S. when the country can ill afford any further social tension...