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...continue some of the programs at all. Generally, mayors and other city leaders fear that state legislatures will slash programs benefiting city dwellers more deeply than those popular with rural and suburban residents. "Big-city school programs are chewed up by Reagan's block-grant concept," says Forrest Rieke, chairman of the Portland, Ore., school board. "It pits us against the downstate interests, and their folks in the legislature definitely have us outnumbered...
When the century was younger and Motown was Boomtown, jobs were for the picking on the conveyor belts of Detroit. Forrest Jones got one, leaving behind the dust of Piggott, Ark. So did Paul Youker's father, trading hard times in New York to be a security guard for General Motors. Terrace Turner's father got another, moving north from Mississippi...
...began drafting the address he will deliver this week to a joint session of Congress. He read briefing papers daily and even found time to dip into a book chronicling the physical ailments of previous White House occupants. He also met with eight Governors-seven Republicans and one Democrat, Forrest James of Alabama-for nearly an hour. One participant, Richard Thornburgh of Pennsylvania, said later: "The President in my view looks in fighting trim...
...sure, Young's racing pulse slowed down soon after landing-and the nation's is likely to do the same. Says Forrest Berghorn, a political scientist at the University of Kansas: "The American spirit is too self-centered to concern itself with this for very long. The space shuttle success is in a class with our hockey victory over Russia." That may be too harsh a judgment; of late there have been signs of a renewed popular interest in space. Yet even those who want a redoubled U.S. space effort doubt there will be a lasting effect from...
...latent or blatant references to a dozen low-budget horror movies; characters are named after some of the more mediocre talents ever to win a Directors Guild card (Lew Landers, Roy William Neill, Erle C. Kenton); Roger Corman, godfather to many young directors, makes a cameo appearance, as do Forrest Ackerman, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and Sayles himself. Trouble is The Howling is too insistent on parading its enshocklopedic knowledge to raise Hackle One on any moviegoer's neck. Rob Bottin's special makeup effects may deserve extended study, but the movie shouldn...