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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...things are changing," Republican Leader Hugh Scott told his Senate colleagues not long ago. "And we are changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CONGRESS: THE HEAVY HAND OF SENIORITY | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

Sound-Sensitive. Playing on its own portable, motorized stage, 180 ft. long and 80 ft. wide, the show subdivides into 13 major acts featuring Mickey Mouse as master of ceremonies ("He's so cool and clean-cut," says Producer-Director Bob Jani). Also on hand are Pluto, the Three Little Pigs, Donald Duck, Dumbo and his circus, Cinderella, the Jungle Book characters, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Each act and character is introduced on the giant overhead movie screen with clips from the appropriate Disney movie. Around the edges of the portable stage is a 6-ft.-wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Psychedelic Disney | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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