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...Hold the butter. The annual cost of the world's guns and other implements of war, says James Dunnigan, is currently $700 billion and rising. The U.S.S.R., which has long stressed quantity over quality, will further mortgage its economic future if it hopes to catch up with the military technology of the West. The expensive problem facing the U.S. and its allies is that increased complexity of weapons usually means a decrease in reliability. Service rivalries and political pressure do not help. Getting the bugs out of new machinery may take years, a-which time the molds of obsolescence...
...they could, and the labor council last week took him at his word. It approved a set of policies that would, among other items, subject defense spending to a more critical look. Said Kenneth Young, an assistant to Kirkland: "We have always said that we should have guns and butter. This Administration has decided there isn't going to be any butter. It's all guns...
...College's pre-revolutionary years brought the 1766 "Butter Rebellion" and the plea: "Now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh not." President Josiah Quincy in 1834 called police into the Yard for the first time to calm rioting sophomores protesting the punishment of a classmate...
...considered high fashion-unless the fur was left on. Nowadays, however, leather and its nappy obverse, suede, have been transformed into glamorous materials that can be used for any garment, from bikinis to evening wear. Thanks to new techniques, stiff, bulky skins can be cut almost paper-thin and butter-soft. And they are dyed almost any color. As a result, leather will be ubiquitous this spring. Says Vogue Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella: "Suede is the fashion. It is the star of the season...
...food. Christie paid for the binge-she found herself a wee bit more pneumatic in her mauve, Lycra-stretch jumpsuit. Not to worry. Included in the Los Angeles story was a collection of hip-slimming homilies to which Christie subscribes. Most of the diet tips were standard. Avoid mayonnaise, butter, margarine, oil and salad dressings, drink lots of water and no more than two glasses of wine a day. Christie, who weighs in at 124 Ibs., does not chew gum, so she chomps on raw vegetables. She makes another exception. "I prefer champagne to wine," says Christie. "The bubbles fill...