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...gang and a few six-packs watching Monday Night Football. Their aloof singularity lies at the heart of human fascination with the animal. The cat's wild ways endure and charm. In Japan the cat is called "the tiger that eats from the hand." In her authoritative compendium The Cat, Author Muriel Beadle postulates that the feline's alliance with humans is a dramatic biological decision to swap solitary life in the wild for "the company...
...self-respecting compendium of the reigning avant-garde would be incomplete without Rudolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti (associate professor of architecture at Harvard). They have secured their position as active--and influential--participants in the current architectural (r)evolution by virtue of their academic curricula vitae: impeccable academic credentials and a firm portfolio brimming with exquisite drawings of unrealized projects...
Thus the "irreverent memoir" winds up telling little about Fiedler. It reveals more about Dickson, as an assistant's grateful tribute to the experience of working with his maestro. Dickson's compendium of reminiscences and moments, a handful of which do seem interesting enough to be memorable, can, given sufficient effort and imagination from the reader, furnish the tools to create the picture of what it was like to know Fiedler and the Pops--but the image remains blurred and ineffective for those without the urge to do-it-yourself...
...have taken over the reins of the two budget committees: Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico in the Senate and Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma in the House. Jones is already urging a budget reduction of $30 billion, and Domenici's staff has drawn up a 43-page compendium of 197 possible cuts. Says Domenici: "The truth of the matter is that things are desperate...
...pilots, Young and Crippen began full-time training in January 1978. Each has received 25 hours of formal instruction a week in such subjects as navigation and astronomy, but each also spends many more hours poring over what Astronaut Crew Trainer Thomas Kaiser calls the "cookbook"-a 21-volume compendium of launch, orbit and descent procedures for piloting Columbia that will be on board during the flight. The manual is changed constantly; in the office shared by Young and Crippen is a stack of mimeographed revisions 2½ ft. high. The two men have also spent more than...