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...salaries, however, an oldtimer like Stalmaster can make about $150,000 a year. That is enough to have attracted several dozen highly charged, highly competitive people to the job of caster. With a few exceptions, none of them is secure, and almost on a whim a producer can dump an old hand...
...need to keep "the solemn commitment" to the party's 19.5 million primary voters. But in fact the rules fight was a raw power struggle. Snapped a Carter aide: "It's not an ideological issue. It's a pure and simple attempt by Kennedy people to dump Carter...
Despite the start of talk about Mondale or Muskie, the chief and immediate beneficiary of the dump-Carter sentiment was, of course, Ted Kennedy. His aides insisted he would do nothing to take advantage of Carter's troubles with Billy. But Kennedy spent much of his time last week at the telephone, reminding wavering Carter delegates about Reagan's impressive performance at the Republican National Convention and his strong standing in the polls...
Taking up station at Diego Garcia, the ships will constitute a prepositioned mobile "supply dump" should the President order any part of the new 110,000 man Rapid Deployment Force into action in the region...
...Dousers & Sign Reversers. Literary and artistic work is just a part of the swath of destruction left by carefree vacationers. They tear out bathroom fixtures and pull up flowering plants. They use blasting powder to collect specimens of Indian hieroglyphics. They feed chocolate-covered laxatives to bear cubs and dump detergent into geysers. Sometimes they block up geysers with rocks and logs. They reverse signs on trails-a form of humor that has led to at least one near fatality. In Gettysburg they love to push over monuments...