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...look for tenants who fit in, and who add something to our overall plan." Even the names of businesses are checked in advance to avoid excessive cuteness. The secret, says Benjamin Thompson, the Cambridge, Mass., architect who designed Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Harborplace, "is individual proprietorship, with immense, chaotic variety...
...from the secret and cheerless Room 31074 in the Pentagon. There Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, revealed a new plan to the special committee, headed by Nobel Physicist Charles Townes, that is assigned to find a satisfactory MX launching system. The session was chaotic. Most of the committee's 14 members find the air-launch idea doubtful because of structural and guidance problems, as well as the cost, which could reach $125 billion. But because DeLauer spoke for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and because Weinberger and Reagan are such close friends...
...haunting Argentina's ruling military circles. The land they govern is vast (over 1 million sq. mi.), sparsely populated (28 million people), and has long been one of the great granaries and beef exporters in the world. But Argentina's ceaselessly turbulent politics, oscillating for decades between chaotic populism and military dictatorship, have kept the country from realizing its enormous potential. Today, the Argentine economy is deteriorating badly. The inflation rate, for years the world's highest, had declined from 600% in 1976 to 88% in 1980 under the military, but now is estimated at 150%. Popular...
...years on three different networks. It won high ratings for CBS and ABC, and a higher profile for its star. It provided thrills, laughter and tears. But last week, after a chaotic three-year run on NBC, The Fred Silverman Show was canceled. Silverman, 43, resigned as president of NBC when his new boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 63, refused to guarantee him a free hand. Fred's successor: Grant Tinker, 55, whose MTM Enterprises has produced such classy fare as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant and NBC's own Hill Street Blues. Says TV Consultant Mike...
...disappointed Giscard thus shelved his plans for a new party. Instead of running for a lowly parliamentary seat, he decided to withdraw to his country estate, much as De Gaulle did in 1946. The defeated President was hoping that a taste of chaotic Socialist government would make him what he calls "the most popular man in France," and pave the way for an eventual return to power. "Giscard is like a woman who has been rejected," says a confidant. "He can't try to impose himself. He has to wait for the call...