Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Intolerable Noise. In an effort combining both professional and amateur lobbying, they besieged Senators from all over the country-excluding almost none, not even diehard SST backers. Their message: the SST was patently a luxury for the jet set, saving inconsequential hours at huge cost, and potentially a lethal one...
The salient mark of their effectiveness, and of Proxmire's own unrelenting exposition of anti-SST arguments in the Senate, is the fact that when the roll call came, 19 Senators who voted against Proxmire last year voted for him this time. Before the vote, Senator Edmund Muskie, long...
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Absentee Problem. While it was the worst, it was not the only defeat Nixon suffered last week as the lame-duck session moved toward its Christmastime end. The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, turning aside Administration warnings that its $68.7 billion defense budget was already as lean as it could be...
There were also some successes for the President. The Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, providing funds for the dissemination of birth control devices and information in the U.S., was approved by a conference committee of both houses and is expected to come up for a final...