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...ought," mused House Minority Whip Les Arends, "to pass a law to abolish the last couple of weeks of the session." In the frenetic atmosphere of the waning 89th Congress, such a bill might even stand a good chance of passage...
Pitching is supposed to be 75% of the game. So naturally the odds makers installed the Los Angeles Dodgers as 8-to-5 favorites to whip the Baltimore Orioles in last week's World Series. The Dodgers had the two highest-paid starting pitchers in baseball: Sandy Koufax (salary: $130,000), who set a National League record by winning 27 games during the regular season-the most by any lefthander since 1900, and Don Drysdale (salary: $115,000), the burly righthander who recovered from a dismal start to win four out of his last five starts as the Dodgers...
...Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture of dry white wine and crème de cassis (black-currant liqueur), named for Canon Felix Kir, who also doubles as the Mayor of Dijon. So far, mercifully, returning American tourists have resisted importing one new drink that has already swept Italy...
Unfortunately, the man most interested in patent legislation is Sen. Russell Long (D.-La.), Senate majority whip, who doesn't believe the professors necessarily have any rights. The professors may make the discoveries, but the people are paying for them, Long argues. Since the discoveries are public property, he says, federal agencies, not professors, should decide what is done with them. Left on their own, the agencies undoubtedly would, as they do now, leave many of the professors out in the cold...
Only Thomas Kuchel, the Senate's Minority Whip, and Christopher have remained aloof. Kuchel backed Christopher in the primary and is quoted as saying, "I know where Christopher stands, which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan...