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Still, the religious attitudes of the main characters do not necessarily reflect Murphy's. The Marine gunnery sergeant, the Associate Justice and Declan Walsh himself a11 express some distress at the new Roman Catholic ritual, with its abandonment of the old music and the Latin. Murphy and his wife Terry (their two daughters now live in other parts of the country) regularly go to an English-language folk Mass...
...steam generators be successfully combined with jet aircraft engines and high-rise elevators? Last week United Technologies Corp., the Hartford, Conn., aerospace conglomerate, ventured half a billion dollars to find out. The company declared its intention to buy up a11 12.6 million shares of Babcock & Wilcox Co., a leading New York-based manufacturer of coal-and nuclear-powered generators, for $42 a share in cash. The acquisition would unite two companies whose revenues last year totaled almost $7 billion...
Still a third interpretation comes from Iowa Democrat Richard Clark, head of the African subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Clark, who has talked with the leaders of a11 three Angolan factions, believes that they all have much the same goals and that the Russians may just be wasting their money in backing the M.P.L.A. "The history of Soviet intervention in Africa," says Clark, "is one of almost total failure. If the M.P.L.A. wins, the Soviets will be lucky if they can hang on for a year...
...A11 figures reckoned in current dollars, unadjusted for inflation. * Experts use the euphemistic, though accurate, term transfers to include not only arms sold but also those provided...
...change the rules? We cannot make our leaders take a vow of poverty. But we can make ironclad restrictions preventing a candidate or public official from using his own money for any political or public purpose. The next clause should prevent one officeholder from "assisting" another. Let them a11 behave like paupers...