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...frantic effort seemed to buoy law-enforcement officials and the Hearst family. Charles Bates, head of the FBI'S task force in the Hearst case, got a "seat-of-the-pants feeling" that Patricia might be freed last Wednesday, on her 20th birthday. Mother Catherine Hearst, who had been gently criticized by Patricia in one message for appearing on TV in somber black clothes, promised that she would don "a pretty dress" for her daughter's return. "They've asked me to make a gesture of sincerity, and that's what we've done," said...
That, of course, does not mean that the Soviets will ultimately give them back. But the communique marked the first time that the Kremlin had even admitted that they were a subject for discussion. For Tanaka, the concession, however small, resembled a life buoy. Not only had his Soviet visit started poorly; his preceding twelve-day journey through Europe had been somewhat less than exhilarating...
...Administration would like private industry to build some kind of "superport" in federally controlled waters beyond the states' three-mile jurisdiction. One proposal is to construct "monobuoys," which cost about $500 million and have already been tested off the coasts of the United Kingdom, Africa and Japan. Each buoy is moored 15 to 20 miles out to sea and connected by an underwater pipeline to shoreline facilities. Supertankers simply tie up to the buoy and pump oil into the pipeline while swinging with the tides and currents. Trouble is, oil is often spilled in the process and eventually washes...
...cast does everything it possibly can to buoy things up. Stephen Elliott's God is a bull-roaring cosmic paterfamilias and Bob Dishy as Adam is playfully endearing as a man whose innocence has been tampered with. As Eve, Australian-born Zoe Caldwell suffers from an imperial sibilance in her delivery, which somehow implies that the Garden of Eden was the first British colony. George Grizzard's Lucifer is best of all, a celestial Richard III combining a ravenous appetite for power with silky glints of mischief...
International rowing powers like New Zealand and East Germany have long used the individual selection process, and Olympic (and Harvard) crew coach Harry Parker hopes that the new approach will buoy the United States's chances...