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...paid waiter and loudmouthed gambler who dreams of hitting the numbers big so that he can run away with his popsy (Ellen March). The domineering mother Enid (Beatrice Arthur) has a tongue with the sting of a killer bee. The 17-year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid wheedles him into auditioning Paul. Terrified...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power Commission. For the past three years he has been president of Denver's Mountain States Legal Foundation, a public-interest firm of ten lawyers that was formed in 1977 by Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewer and backer of archconservative causes...
...returns, it was like an eagerly awaited heavyweight championship that ends with a knockout eleven seconds into the first round. At 6 p.m. E.S.T., an hour before Election Night coverage got under way at the three networks, CBS News President Bill Leonard confidently collected a bet from a Carter backer, proclaiming, "It's gonna be an early night." At NBC, John Chancellor signed on at 7:00 with the prediction that "Ronald Reagan will win a very substantial victory tonight, very substantial." In fact, by the time ABC made the night's first official call-Reagan in Indiana...
...acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give priority to energy. Carter's priorities seem the reverse, although he, too, is a supporter of nuclear power expansion. He has been a strong backer of the Environmental Protection Agency and has supported the Clean Air Act despite complaints from coal producers that it hinders production. He has also backed a strong congressional bill protecting Alaska lands. In a clash between economic growth and environmental protection, he would likely come down on the side of conservation...
...formally until the next Council meeting. What the University is attempting, however, is not an innocuous readjustment of its patent policy, but a revolutionary new business relationship with faculty in which some professors will become business partners with the University. In effect, the University will become a major financial backer of the research of professors whose work is likely to produce a commercial profit, the work being carried out on University time and in University facilities. Mr. Steiner's "visit" to the Faculty Council was clearly to test the atmosphere and to introduce the plan with a minimum of fuss...