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Reagan offers a plan to pass the buck, and the bucks, from Washington...
...enemies of the civil rights movement. Reagan's aides initially created the impression that the President had acted with little notice and less information in advance of the change. Reagan disposed of that dodge at his press conference. "No one put anything over on me," he said. "The buck stops at my desk. I'm the originator of the whole thing." He conceded that the matter had been poorly handled. But now he was vigorously, if belatedly, urging Congress to pass legislation that would deny tax breaks to schools that discriminate racially. "Don't judge...
California gets a big Victorian bang for its buck...
...speaks for the restoration itself. Says Architect Raymond Girvigian, the project's chief historian, "History provides the binding force that welds people together. This, now, is a functional building that people can walk through like a work of art. How much more of a bang for your buck...
SCOTT comes the closest to reality in this movie, playing the nutso commandant. Melding two of his better characters from previous films--gung-ho Gen. Buck Turgidson of Dr. Strangelove and bloodthirsty Gen. George S. Patton of Patton--Scott portrays a feeble ex-warrior who fails to make the crucial distinction between parade-ground bluster and actually killing for a principle. He doesn't intend to send the youngsters on a suicide mission, but he is the first one to talk about footholds and not giving in without a fight. Before things get out of hand, Scott interprets Bache...