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...amid clinking glasses, receptions that stumbled on into the evening hours and cozy chatter about a new comradeship between Capitol Hill and the White House. Nearly 200 children of all ages gamboled about the House floor as all but one of the 435 Representatives (Illinois' Morgan Murphy was absent for a funeral) attended the opening ceremonies, many bringing their families. In the Senate, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller presided over the opening rituals as one of his final official acts in the fading Republican Administration. In both chambers, Democrats looked forward with a mixture of eagerness and uneasiness to having...
...even the usual small pleasures have been denied to many Sowetoans this Christmas. The township is in unofficial mourning for its many hundreds of missing. The mourning period was mounted by students still at liberty in Soweto, as a mark of respect for their absent colleagues. After some initial resistance, Soweto's elders generally complied with leaflets distributed by SSRC calling for a moratorium on Christmas presents, parties, the exchange of greeting cards and any other outward sign of celebration. One group of students went so far as to break up a wedding ceremony as "inappropriate"; since then, many marriages...
MOST HONEST FELLA: Dustin Hoffman, at the aforementioned blast. Asked why his Marathon Man costar, Laurence Olivier, was absent, Dusty gave the short answer, "He has too much class...
...interview last week: "I may have to be absent on an occasion rather than cast a veto that I don't believe in"−an allusion to such issues as southern African problems and the admission of Viet...
...race problem-and one of the most divisive. In it Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan, now Senator-elect from New York, argued that economic aid alone could not bring equality for blacks in America. His reason: the black family, marked by female-headed households, high illegitimacy and absent fathers, had been destroyed by slavery and left trapped in "a tangle of pathology" that impeded real progress for black Americans...