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...white tornado seems to have hit Hollywood particularly hard. At this spring's Oscar ceremony, Johnny Carson remarked: "The biggest moneymaker in Hollywood last year was Colombia. Not the studio-the country." Reports abound of coked-up parties and drugged-out meetings. Earlier this year, TV Guide lent a degree of credence to such talk in a two-part series concluding that, among other things, cocaine was partly responsible for the low quality of television programming inflicted upon Americans. Though the articles were understandably short on names and specifics, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control somewhat...
...signs are no less evident at the other end of the migration. Michigan license plates abound on the freeways of Houston, where a thousand newcomers -black, white, young and old-arrive each week. Resumes are piled high on the desks of employment counselors in Houston, where 70,000 new jobs were created last year. Local radio station KILT now promotes itself with the message: "If you're from Detroit... you've found your station in Houston." Apartment agents have installed WATS lines to serve out-of-state callers. The waterfront apartment complex near Houston, where Anita Cousins lives...
EMULATION. Few nations have so sought out and used the best from other societies as Japan. In a sense Japan has become "the best of all possible worlds." Examples abound of the copycat-Japan theme. In 1543 shipwrecked Portuguese mariners went ashore on the Japanese island of Tanegashima and traded a few firearms in return for food and water from the locals, who had never before encountered either Westerners or their weapons. Thirty years later one of the sailors returned to the island, and this time found the populace armed with 20,000 guns, each an exact replica of that...
Such ragged edges abound in the Reagan trade policy. There is, for example, what is becoming known as the "Brock Doctrine." William Brock, the chairman of the Trade Policy Committee and U.S. Trade Representative, calls for linking trade policy with other foreign policy considerations. The U.S. hypothetically might agree to forgo any restrictions on auto imports from Japan in exchange for larger Japanese spending on Western defense. Says Brock: "I'm not saying we should cut off exports or trade to pursue foreign policy objectives alone. But you cannot ignore the leverage that trade offers to our overall diplomatic...
...those who claim to be unemployed never subsequently register at a state employment office, as regulations require, indicates that fraud is rampant. The Denver program, its administrators concede, is taken for at least $90,000 a month; the true figure is probably much higher. The horror stories abound: the woman who got stamps under five names, the three men who together used 27 names...