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...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...life where one is seldom alone but usually lonely. There are plenty of men, but they are mostly grinning sycophants or lecherous disc jockeys. Yet it is almost impossible to retire; the thrill of recognition quickly becomes an opiate. "I wish I had an alter ego to hide in," says Bonnie Raitt. "This isn't the easiest way to spend one's 20s." Rock women seldom have successful marriages. The exceptions are Carole King, 33, and Carly Simon, 31, who have normal lives simply because they do not tour, and avoid the whole rock world. Known...
...ICBMS, 740 seaborne missiles and 150 bombers. For the U.S., a slight increase in launchers would be permitted. The U.S. now has about 2,200, including 1,054 land-based ICBMs, 656 submarine-fired missiles and 500 strategic bombers. Within the overall limit, each side would be able to alter the mix of its types of weapons...
...either of the two major parties, which have been run by sets of rules that could be changed with relative ease as various factions gained power. The Democrats' proposed charter would give the party a formalized and comprehensive set of rules that would be more difficult to alter. Provisions deal with such basic issues as the power of the national organization over state parties; proportional representation in primaries...
...point at which the terrible costs of a continued downward spiral outweigh the benefits of tempering inflation and dictate some new stimulation (probably tax relief rather than more spending). But that point, in their view, has not come yet, and for a while longer, recession will continue to alter the lives and outlooks of millions of Americans...