Word: authority
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Some public officials are disturbed by the trend. Says Betty Smith, state chairman for Northern California: "The most appalling thing for me is that this is certainly not a solution to a serious drug problem." San Francisco Supervisor Bill Maher, author of a bill banning all drug testing within city limits except for uniformed civil servants, mocks the craze. "I think they ought to test the urine for brain cells instead of drugs," says he. "The political leadership of urinating into a test tube eludes...
...user of language want to wash his mouth out with whisky. Brunch can be avoided by not getting out of bed before noon on Sundays, but prequel -- ptui! -- probably is inevitable for works such as Richard Condon's rowdy new novel, a report on the formative years of the author's lovable but dumb Mafia assassin Charley Partanna...
...tabernacle dodge. He is an outof- towner, really, who does not understand how things work in New York, and he wants to have Charley indicted for his sixth-to-last murder. Maerose, a more serious troublemaker, wants to take over her grandfather's operation. As usual with the author's recent entertainments, the fact that none of this makes much sense becomes a literary metaphor on the order of Melville's white whale, implying as it does that the entire world is nuts. This is clearly Condon's view, and he is mightily persuasive as he defines human character: foaming...
Whatever way he did it -- and he certainly seems to have done it -- Author Kitty Kelley has written about it her way. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra is not yet in bookstores, and Kelley's unflinching portrait of the swaggering singer, said to be based on more than 800 interviews, is already causing a sensation. In PEOPLE magazine excerpts last week and this, % Kelley portrays Ol' Blue Eyes as a score-keeping Lothario whose list of discarded leading ladies includes Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Victoria Principal and Natalie Wood. Sinatra, who tried unsuccessfully to stop...
...nothing new for private donors to pitch in for public education. Just last week, the Rev. Andrew Greeley, best-selling author of novels like Ascent Into Hell, announced his plan to set up a $1 million fund to assist Catholic schools in Chicago in which minorities constitute at least half the enrollment. But the practice of taking responsibility for the future of entire graduating classes of schools and even of school systems is a new idea, one that appears to be gaining support around the country. Responding in part to sharp cutbacks in federal funding for student aid, benefactors from...