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...Government, especially in the State Department, welcomed the report, hoping that it would strengthen their hand against the Pentagon. Burt encountered Aspin at a party and told him that the coalition that was forming between the Scowcroft commission and Congress "may yet get this Administration off the dime in arms control. Just up." keep the pressure The MX survived a number of votes, but by diminishing margins. By last summer, White House officials were hinting to key Congressmen that in addition to the lifting of the 850 ceiling on launchers, a number of the other more unrealistic features of START...
...disappointed Vincent, who lost the election as well as the decision, the court's belief in the ban's equal impact seemed to consider rich and poor alike. Said he: "The city council campaign costs a quarter of a million dollars if it costs a dime. People who don't have that kind of money resort to signs...
Leonard began by writing Apache-and-cavalry stories for pulps like Dime Western while working in an advertising agency: "I'd get up early, write, then go crank out zingy copy for Chevrolet trucks." By 1967 he had sold his novel Hombre to Hollywood and was liberated from office routine. One divorce, five children and 20 novels later, he arrived at his pared-down adrenal style. By now, he feels, he deserves the signed photograph of Hemingway that decorates his study. Says he: "I learned to write from For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, he concedes, "my attitude...
...Spare a Dime...
...Pennsylvania, the lowest monthly rate rising from $9.60 to $12.28. It has begun installing message-unit service in some areas, basing tolls on time and distance of calls. The company increased pay-phone charges from a nickel to 15? in the District of Columbia, and from a dime to 25? in Delaware and Virginia. It increased directory-assistance charges throughout its area, ranging up to 35? in Pennsylvania and Delaware...