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...hospital aides trundled him onto the Senate floor in a wheelchair, a needle and intravenous tube still inserted in his arm. Senators gave Wilson a standing ovation, which he turned to laughter by asking deadpan, "What is the question?" He voted yes on the budget resolution, but Hawaii Democrat Spark Matsunaga rushed in from his Senate office to vote no, and the tally was deadlocked at 49-49. Vice President George Bush was in the chair, however; he had cut short a Western speechmaking tour and rushed back from Phoenix Thursday morning. Bush cast the tie-breaking vote...
...scholarly grasp of anyone who tries to completely recapture the past. At one point, Braithwaite says in an aside: "I know this. Sometimes the past may be a greased pig; sometimes a bear in its den; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot, two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest." Braithwaite's--and the novel's--wisdom lies in his realization that the overgrown byways of literary history may not lead anywhere in particular, but the stroll itself yields immeasurable self-understanding. He does find many guises of his subject along the way, just...
...Securities and Exchange Commission sued Bevill, Bresler for fraud, charging that the firm secretly drained its customers' investments to make up for heavy trading losses. The failure comes in the wake of last month's $317 million collapse of Fort Lauderdale's E.S.M. Government Securities, which provided the spark for Ohio's savings and loan crisis...
Benning who stands just two assists short of the Harvard record for a defenseman, has helped spark a unit that has connected on over 33 percent of its chances...
South African operations: According to company spokesman Tony Bouger, Champion owns a plant in South Africa which makes spark plugs for sale in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The plant employs 94 people, 64 of whom are Black, Bouger said...