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Conservatives tried another offensive last week with an amendment proposed by Virginia's Joseph Fisher to slash 2% from the budget resolution. O'Neill, Wright and Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana again grabbed wavering Democrats and persuaded them to support the party's leadership. O'Neill jokingly described the arm twisting as "strictly an appeal to reason." Said Wright: "After they had already gone over the brink, we threw over a rope and pulled them back." The leaders changed a dozen votes, and the Fisher amendment was beaten...
...sure: "I was waiting for the other horse [Alydar] to come, but he never did, so I started riding my horse. His ears pricked up and he picked up. It went real smooth." After a perfect ride from his jockey and a few flicks of the whip, Affirmed eased home the winner in as relaxed and smart a race as Derby fans have seen in years...
...Lakes. There the ambassador and other Torrijos aides explained the minimum conditions they would require of the Senate for acceptance of the treaties. The role of Rogers meshed with the needs of the prime treaty strategists in the Senate, including Democratic Leader Robert Byrd, Republican Leader Howard Baker, Democratic Whip Alan Cranston and the treaty floor manager, Frank Church, who wanted firsthand information on Panamanian feelings...
...Paul are plaster busts of Humphrey and his wife Muriel, a doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire...
Carter's plans could scarcely be called either a drastic or a comprehensive program. Cartoonists already are comparing Carter's anti-inflation approach to Gerald Ford's ineffective WIN (for Whip Inflation Now) program - an overly ballyhooed melange of tax recommendations and pleas for restraint in buying that was quickly scuttled because of the deepening recession. But the outlines of Carter's plan, if they hold, do at least constitute a useful recognition that the Government must begin any attack on inflation by getting its own house in order...