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...accepted only after laundry workers (who do not, after all, form much of a voting bloc in most constituencies) were excluded from coverage. The Administration's major triumph came on a measure well calculated to please the constituent-conscious Congressmen. It was a sprawling, $6 billion, pork-barrel housing bill, covering both low-and middle-income groups in both urban and rural areas...
...president of Wesleyan's International Relations Club, is tall, urbane and serious, and has lived most of his life in Argentina, wrhere his father sells Jeeps. Stephen Butts, 20. is the son of the director of International Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College. Short and barrel-chested, he uses crutches as a result of childhood polio, has been chief engineer on the campus radio station and announcer of home football games. David Fisher, 21, short, unkempt, slightly aloof, is the group's musical arranger and the only Highwayman who is seriously interested in music...
...weapons that make Nikita Khrushchev such a formidable enemy is his extraordinary ability to mix threats of nuclear destruction with homespun homilies straight from the cracker barrel, all delivered with the jaunty air of a man who feels he has got the world on a string and enjoys yo-yoing it around. Last week, in a 4½-hour interview in his Kremlin office with New York Timesman Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Khrushchev was on top of the barrel...
Father Dustin's avocation was born in an alley back home in St. Louis, where, as a boy of seven, he discovered "a busted mandolin in a trash barrel, tuned it like a uke, and started picking at it." Rhythm came naturally; his father was a lyricist and vaudeville performer, his mother a pianist and singer who organized and led a 15-piece, all-male dance band. Father Dustin, who never wanted to be any thing but a priest, nevertheless departed for a seminary at 15 with his banjo on his knee. Assigned after ordination to the Holy Redeemer...
...months building his special plunge-o-sphere, a 1,200-lb. steel framework covered with seven layers of rubber, equipped it with 13 canisters of oxygen in case he was trapped behind the falls' water curtain-a precaution dictated by another fallsman who went over in a steel barrel in 1930, spent 22 hours behind the curtain, suffocated when his air supply ran out. Trucking his sphere to the Niagara River, Boya launched it into the current, climbed aboard and floated off. Niagara Parks Commission Chief Edward Rehfeld, who takes a dim view of such adventures, spotted the contraption...