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...question: Where did a onetime spinner of sea-horse operas learn to write comedy? Perhaps from his grandfather, Humorist Robert Benchley, or from his father, Novelist Nathaniel, or even from the exasperating Johnson (Lyndon, not Samuel), for whom young Peter once worked as a White House speechwriter. In any case, this Benchley's latest effort contains some memorable slapstick. When Burnham splits his pants on the way to his first audience with the President, he solves the problem with his desktop stapler, leading to some hilariously complicated results. And the novel offers an impudent phrase or two. A pair...
Daniel Manion is an Indiana attorney and a former state senator whose practice has been the usual small-firm mix of real estate transactions, business matters, wills and personal-injury claims. He has never argued a case before a federal appeals court or even been the lead lawyer in any federal case. That did not matter much to his clients or anyone else until President Reagan nominated the conservative lawyer for the important U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Soon the Senate will vote on whether to confirm him, and the result is being watched intently...
...along with the Magazine Publishers Association and other groups, is suing the commission to retract the letter and issue a statement explaining its intentions. They charged that the letter has touched off a ''blaze of censorship across the land.'' Judge John Garret Penn is expected to rule on the case before the scheduled release of the commission's controversial report on pornography July 3. The commission said it had ''inadvertently'' dropped from its letter the name of the man who had supplied the list of suspect companies: the Rev. Donald Wildmon of Tupelo, Miss., a Methodist minister and founder...
...successor. ''It is absolutely uncanny,'' muses Regan. ''Something small that you think is just a nit and a gnat, and all of a sudden, if not handled correctly or somebody gets offended by the way it is handled, it blows up into a major issue. Take the Mike Deaver case. It never occurred to me that that is the kind of subject that could suddenly become a lead story. You open up the paper in the morning to see who the hell has leaked what now, or what we are being castigated...
...assist in the traffic but also appear to have protected those who carried out the brutal murder last year of Enrique Camarena Salazar, an American Drug Enforcement Administration agent. U.S. concern was hardly soothed when Mexican Foreign Secretary Bernardo Sepulveda Amor shrugged off the incident as ''only a police case.'' Last week Sepulveda reiterated that the battle against drugs would subside only when U.S. consumption slackens. As domestic and international pressures mount, both the poor and the middle class have grown increasingly disgruntled with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. During the 57 years it has ruled the country...