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...roll call was anticlimactic. The packed galleries rang with cheers when Speaker Tip O'Neill announced the results: 245 to 176 in favor of deleting the $988 million for MX production. Fifty Republicans had opposed Reagan. Only 38 Democrats had taken his side...
...tip-off was the setting. Unlike the grand and spacious Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, where John and Robert Kennedy had launched their bids for the White House, Room 4232 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building is small and comparatively humble. Packed inside with a slew of Kennedy family members were the usual political retainers and loyal supporters, gathered together for the occasion: not the launching but the scuttling of a presidential bid. Announced Edward Kennedy last week: "I will not be a candidate for President of the United States...
Fifteen years after her first starring role in a fur bikini in One Million Years B.C., Raquel Welch, 42, is writing a book. And in the tradition of Jane Fonda and Miss Piggy, it will be an exercise-beauty-tip plan for which she has already received a $275,000 advance from New American Library. Welch, who has been warming up for her task by practicing on a new $10,000 word processor, says that unlike other get-fit-quick books, hers will emphasize that "the mind and the body are connected." She hasn't actually started writing...
...tenure be relegated to a back burner. But it is well within their scope to set up a procedure to ensure that--whether or not tenure committees want the information only students can give--it's on their desks. Just this once, we might do well to take the tip from Yale...
...Kennedy's political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O'Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month's midterm elections illustrated this perception: they showed President Reagan comfortably ahead of Kennedy and of fellow old-style liberal Walter F. Mondale. Voters apparently doubted--with reason--whether the two Democratic frontrunners had any fresh alternatives to Reaganomics, believing...