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...four years, like a recurring nightmare, the cherubic visage and satanic fulminations of William Loeb, cantankerous, ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, would turn up on the front pages of newspapers across the country. As aspiring Presidents trooped up to New Hampshire for the nation's earliest presidential primary, Loeb's relatively small daily (circ. 65,298) became an influential voice in American politics. That voice was Loeb's alone: petulant, scurrilous and unfailingly infuriating. For more than thirty years, Loeb put his splenetic opinions where no one could miss them: in boldface type...
...Jenkins Jr., who is also curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said the jaw-bone fossil belongs to a mouse-sized creature that lived about 180 million years ago. "This is the most exciting find of my career because it stimulates our research of the earliest stages of mammalian history," Jenkins said in announcing the discovery of the one-cm.-long bone found in northeastern Arizona...
...Reagan warned, "forces of aggression, lawlessness and tyranny . . . seek to undo the work of generations of our people, to put out a light that we've been tending for the past 6,000 years." More personally, the President said to a visibly moved Begin, "From your earliest days, you were acquainted with hunger and sorrow, but as you've written, you rarely wept. On one occasion, you did-the night when your beloved country, the state of Israel, was proclaimed. You cried that night, you said, because, 'truly there are tears of salvation as well as tears...
Some of the earliest controversy over the Ebla findings was sparked when famous names in the Bible-Adam, Eve, Jonah and David among them-turned up on the Ebla tablets. This did not mean the same persons were being written about, but indicated that Ebla and the Bible could have come from similar cultural milieus...
...have written in his sleep. "Getting Better," the tune Davies obviously wrote to spearhead record sales, is a pleasing little ditty that probably took two minutes to write and three to arrange. "Destroyer," the most hard-hitting song in the album, rips off the riff from one of Davies' earliest hits, "All Day and All of the Night." The rest of the songs, for the most part, are nice but unmemorable--safe territory...