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...Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co., all big Navy contractors. Among the presents: a $695 pair of diamond earrings mounted on 18-karat gold and a $430 jade necklace. Rickover says those baubles went to his wife, but that he passed most of the other "trinkets"-gold pendants, desk sets, ship models-on to Congressmen and then wives...
Anyone shrewd enough to make a living in the man-of-letters dodge knows that an occasional desk-clearing miscellany, a dustpan with hard covers, will be indulged between actual, seat-of-the-pants books. To E. (for Edgar) L. (for Lawrence) Doctorow's credit, he includes no commencement speeches, letters to the Times, book reviews or similar lint balls in this between-books collection. Instead, the author of Ragtime and Loon Lake offers six short stories, impeccably done, rather academic, mostly forgettable, and one 65-page mishmash called, for want of an accurate tag, a novella. The mishmash...
Reagan voiced his warmest praise yet last week for another far-reaching economic draft on his desk, calling the Treasury Department's tax-reform plan "the best proposal for changing the tax system that has ever occurred within my life-tune." Yet he stopped well short of endorsing it, while making clear that the deficit-reduction plan had his full imprimatur...
Last week, as movers packed his collection of Indian tomahawks and his 1874 Wooton desk, Conable was challenging the Republican Party to be the party of Government: "The party that gets things done. Not the party of ideology, or the party of opposition, or the party of special interests or some other lighthearted role...
...political debate surrounding a national referendum. More importantly, the Bishops realized, as everyone else did, that Ronald Reagan was returning for another four years of social program slashing. Is it mere coincidence that the pastoral letter on economic policy and social justice landed on the President's White House desk just as he was deliberating over next year's proposed budget cuts? How could the President's shrewd advisers overlook the tone of the Bishops' statement which was just as critical of the federal government as last year's letter on the nuclear arms race...