Word: allen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opponents of the Udall bill disagree-and strongly. Mining companies want to get at the minerals that may lie under the proposed parklands. J. Allen Overton Jr., of the American Mining Congress, warned last week: "We've got to find and produce 40,000 additional pounds of minerals for every man, woman and child in this country every year. How are we going to do that by locking up a piece of America 2½ times the size of California...
...branches will crack or that she will climb too high and not be able to get back down. Gradually, as she gains confidence, the mumbles turn into words, the words into full-and even funny -sentences. "Diane is always totally surprised when people find her amusing," says Woody Allen. "She is a natural comedienne, but she never quite believes...
Keaton's whole career, in fact, has been spent in convincing herself-nobody else ever seems to have doubted her -that she is a gifted actress. In 1968, when she auditioned for the original Broadway version of Play It Again, Sam, Allen's comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart, she was, she says with double underlining, "just sick. There were all these other women there to try out for the part, and I was scared to death." And she probably could not have walked on to do her bit-if it wasn't so obvious that Allen...
Mutual Jitters. Deciding to be scared together, Keaton and Allen set up housekeeping in New York City, and she went on to star in the movie version of Sam, as well as two subsequent Allen films, Sleeper and Love and Death. Aside from the mutual jitters, it was a case of opposites attracting: he was a stereotypical New Yorker and she was a model Southern Californian. "When I first met her," Allen remembers, "she was a real hayseed, the kind who would chew eight sticks of gum at a time. I talked to her on the phone once when...
Complains Allen Fox, an aide to Senator Edward Kennedy's subcommittee on health resources and scientific research: "There is no accountability in decision making. The FDA must be reorganized internally." Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Ralph Nader-affiliated Public Citizen's Health Research Group in Washington, says of the agency's initial decision to ban saccharin altogether: "The FDA wrote up its intention in one hour and 20 minutes. The furor could have been avoided if they thought of public reaction. They blew...