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Newton remains part interstellar phantom, part earthbound Howard Hughes. He watches a dozen television sets at once. Newton is also a curiously vulnerable superbeing. He is intrigued by a Southwestern hotel clerk named Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), dogged by a curious scientist named Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn), whom he eventually hires and who betrays him. Newton plans to use his vast industrial resources to build a spacecraft that will return him to his dying planet, the tiny population of which will then be borne to earth. This idea does not go down well on terra firma. People in high places...
Trying to keep the campaign from becoming another Titanic, senior Ford advisers recently held an emergency summit conference. Among those attending were Republican Heavyweights Melvin Laird, Dean Burch and Bryce Harlow as well as some G.O.P. congressional leaders and two savvy fund raisers, Detroit Industrialist Max Fisher and California Businessman Leon Parma...
...which is already being dirtied by other power plants in the area. The National Park Service agreed that the plant's emissions would harm the region; some 20% of the country's land managed by the National Park Service-including the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon and Capital Reef national parks-is located within 250 miles of the proposed plant site. Two weeks ago, in an action that probably hastened the consortium's decision, 31 members of Congress suggested even further delays in the plant's oft-stalled construction by formally...
...drinking habits. He would turn up at the office at noon with eyes already so glazed that Treasury Secretary William Simon was reminded of a "windup doll." Nixon let himself ramble incoherently at private dinners. At a pre-Christmas dinner in 1973 with a few intimates, including Political Adviser Bryce Harlow and Senator Barry Goldwater, he was unable to express himself. "Bryce, explain what I'm saying to Barry," he pleaded several times. Next day Goldwater called Harlow, asking, "Is the President off his rocker?" Replied Harlow, "No. He was drunk...
Even as Ford prepared to take over the Administration from Nixon in August 1974, some members of his informal "kitchen cabinet"?which included former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Presidential Aide Bryce Harlow, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, and then NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld?had some advice. They urged that Ford relieve Henry Kissinger of his job as head of the National Security Council to devote full time to his duties as Secretary of State. No matter how able, they argued, he could not do justice to both, and his dual role tended to "rupture...