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...years. Originally designed primarily for foreign sales, the F-20 has not sold a single plane; apparently foreign buyers are not interested in a plane that the Pentagon will not buy. In an attempt to crack the market, Northrop made an extraordinary offer to sell 396 F-20s to the Pentagon at $15 million apiece. Yet the Air Force, contending that the F-20 is technically inferior to its rivals, strongly prefers the $19.4 million F-16 and the far more powerful $40 million...
...most popular English playwrights of the '20s, Lonsdale was a master of drawing-room comedy, sophisticated plays about the idle, but not idle-tongued, rich. "In the '50s and '60s, when the angry young men were writing, people thought Freddy's plays were absolute rubbish," says Harrison. "But the angries have grown old and got their goodies, and they don't know what to be angry about any more. So there's going to be a revival of Lonsdale, I think. The plot of Aren't We All? is not terribly strong, but the play itself is really rather nice...
...practitioners of the all-but-lost art of amusing repartee and witty exit lines. Their last Broadway romp was The $ Kingfisher in 1978. "I go back to the age of Methuselah!" says Harrison, with what sounds like genuine pride. "When I first went to London to work in the '20s, I loved watching the great high-comedy actors of the period, like Gerald du Maurier. To my mind, they were the epitome of what acting is about...
...those who already have fur coats, there are interesting bargains in deluxe cars. Dr. Barry Henderson, an Atlanta physician, has a Jaguar XJ6 on his shopping list, a burgundy-colored four-door sedan. "You can get a Jaguar in the mid-20s," he says, "and they're at least $35,000 in the U.S. You have to have it modified for EPA regulations, but the savings outweigh the modification costs...
...Paul Nitze, Reagan's special adviser on arms control, said Moscow's new proposal was worse from the American standpoint than the final Soviet position before the breakoff of the Geneva talks in November 1983. Back then, the U.S.S.R. would have kept only 120 SS-20s in Europe, while the U.S. would have deployed no new missiles. U.S. officials further derided Gorbachev's initiative because the Soviets have developed a successor to the SS-20, making the old missile expendable. Said one Administration aide: "They're just offering to stop what they were going to stop anyway...