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With few days remaining before it officially ceases to exist, the 91st, lame-duck Congress had still wrought no definitive law on the big issues. Locked in a single, unwieldy piece of legislation were proposals for restrictions on trade, increases in Social Security benefits and portions of the Administration's far-reaching reform of the welfare system. Each passing day decreased the already slim chance that they could get through the Senate as a package or singly...
Morass of Confusion. The causes of the chaos were multiple. The 91st Congress was in its dying days, and its weary members were clearly disgruntled that it had lasted so long; they yearned impatiently to break away from the capital and enjoy the holidays with the rest of the nation. Ambitious Senators were fighting to save or to kill bills on which their reputations were riding. Time was too short to pass even the measures that a majority clearly favored; in the crunch it was easy for a few men to thwart the will of the rest. At the same...
...Crimson's highest finisher was Tom Spengler, but he could do no better than 91st. Teammates behind him were John Quirk (133), Jeff Brokaw (194), Bob Seals (222), George Barker (245), and Mark Connolly, who dropped out of the chute since he didn't want to be counted...
...while, as newspapers and television were given over to the final days of the campaign and analyses of results, it seemed that the only news was election news. But normalcy-or what passes for it-quickly returns. The delegates to the Paris peace talks met for the 91st time and reported no progress. Four men completed a hazardous voyage on a raft from Ecuador to Australia to prove that American Indians could have sailed across the Pacific. American B-52 bombers once again flew missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail to stem a North Vietnamese buildup in the Demilitarized...
...dilatory 91st Congress stands a good chance of surpassing Harry Truman's "do nothing" 80th as a model of legislative nonactivity. Faced with the possibility of several nation-crippling strikes, however, both House and Senate last week proved that they could overcome inertia and act with dispatch. While an illegal strike by "sick" air controllers entered its third week and wildcatting Teamsters threatened chaos on the highways, Congress moved quickly to head off further trouble with the railroad and postal unions...