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...Leach of Iowa, raised the issue in a letter to the White House in late March. Last week Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, both members of the committee that oversees CIA operations, voiced their doubts on the Senate floor. Democrat Wyche Fowler of Georgia, just returned from a fact-finding visit to Nicaragua, declared, "No branch of our Government may pick and choose which statutes it will obey...
MARRIED. William Brennan, 76, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, appointed by President Eisenhower in 1956; and Mary Fowler, 68, his secretary for 26 years; in Washington, D.C. Brennan's first marriage of 54 years ended when his wife Marjorie died of cancer 3½ months ago. Colleagues on the court learned of the surprise marriage in a memo last week saying that the newlyweds had left for a honeymoon in Bermuda...
...than a medium-size apple. The American Dental Association recommends sugar-free popcorn for snacking. The Illinois division of the American Cancer Society praises popcorn as one of the "eleven things that don't cause cancer." (Among the others: a good laugh, exercise, fruit and vegetables.) Says James Fowler of American Pop Corn Co., Sioux City, Iowa: "If you had asked a lady a few years ago whether she ate popcorn, she'd have told you, 'No, it's too fattening.' Ask the same lady today and she'll tell...
...works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and Frazer's Golden Bough. And George Meredith's works, especially his Essay on Comedy. And H.G. Wells' Time Machine...
Some of the FCC commissioners were uneasy about the new policy, which makes a slice of the broadcast spectrum available without requiring some kind of community service from the broadcasters. But in the end the seven-member body, led by Reagan-appointed Chairman Mark Fowler, acted unanimously in deciding that it was up to the public, not the commission, to determine what kind of shows should be offered. Indeed, while some new satellite broadcasters say they plan to offer the kind of programming generally available on conventional and cable TV, the satellite-to-home connection could also make the living...