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Certain to Carry. Reaction on the Hill was swift and precisely as pre- dicted: two days later, the House voted 289 to 114 to override the education veto. The Senate was scheduled to vote on the veto this week, and since the bill had passed there without a dissenting vote, the override was certain to carry. Equally predictably, opposition leaders were unable to raise the two-thirds majority needed to surmount the HUD veto; it died with the vote. The two vetoes and the votes to over ride were the highlights of one of the busiest weeks in Government during...
Would vigorous octogenarians keep the reins of politics, business and family finances, frustrating the powerless younger generations? Or would they be pushed out of power and wander around, bitter and disgruntled, unable even to talk the same language as their juniors, like Swift's awful immortals, the struld-brugs? Would conflict between generations supersede hostility between classes and races? How could insurance and pension plans continue payments for decades longer? Will aging control become as vital an issue as birth control? In short, the changes resulting from a drastic extension of the lifespan, or even from a series...
Despite the swift pace of revival, misery has by no means been banished from the East Central State. Hospitals are short-staffed and overcrowded. Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the region stealing from villagers. In Enugu, a businessman explained why he could never reach Lagos by telephone: "Thieves steal the copper telephone lines, melt them down and sell the ingots in Lagos, where they are made into telephone lines...
Compartments for Cardinals. That is just what has been done abroad. Americans who travel overseas marvel at the swift, efficient and inexpensive nationalized railroad service they encounter. In France, the Paris-Marseille-Riviera express made 182 trips in a three-month period last winter and was late a total of one minute and a half. Japan's 125-m.p.h. "bullet train" between Tokyo and Osaka is the technological wonder of the Eastern world...
...three U.S. contenders for the 1970 America's Cup showed their shapes in public in a five-day series of trial races. Snub-nosed and broad-beamed, none would win a yachting beauty contest. Yet once they were under sail, all their parts seemed to conjoin in swift, sleek harmony...