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...News and Sports President Roone Arledge's terse farewell was written with a dry eye, but the cameramen will miss Cosell. "One-Take Howard," they called him. He had hoped to become Walter Cronkite or at least Hugh (Downs for a hilarious few weeks in 1975, even Ed Sullivan), but that was so long ago. He will continue on the radio, and he will not be alone. For 41 years, his wife Emmy has stood by him with a devotion that might awe Mother Teresa. Besides that, he has all the love on the street. --By Tom Callahan
...deal, the settlement "proved that the jobs traditionally held by women are worth as much as those traditionally held by men." Her $16,800 annual pay will go up by about $1,200, equal to what a janitor makes. Although such states as Minnesota and Wisconsin have also accept ed the comparable-worth concept, more than 20 others are still fighting lawsuits growing out of the controversial idea. LOBBIES Falwell Rechristens His Majority...
...Teamsters was one of the few unions to support Reagan in the 1980 election. After Reagan won, Presser was made a consultant on union matters to the President-elect's transition team. He was a guest at the White House in 1983 when he met with Ed Meese, then a Reagan aide and now the Attorney General. After the 1984 election, Reagan and Meese visited Presser to thank him for his support...
...bits and Apollo moon flights, warned of an "awesome" list of safety problems, including a runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center that is too short, too rough and subject to erratic weather. While gliding the 100-ton shuttle into Kennedy rather than onto the dry lake beds at Ed wards Air Force Base in the California desert "may be a wonderful political policy," Young wrote his NASA bosses in January, "it is not an intelligent technical policy." Shuttle Inquiry Commission Member Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate, charged last week that the shuttle blew up because of "hopeless" design flaws...
...four top-seeded basketball teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, two feature direct descendants of Baltimore Bullets: Danny Manning of Kansas, Ed's son, and Duke's Danny Ferry, whose father Bob is the general manager of the Washington Bullets. "I really enjoy his accomplishments and understand his failures," says Ferry. "If he were a concert pianist, I'd still enjoy it. But I wouldn't understand...