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...that Weinberger remains an amateur in defense matters. A poor administrator who does not run the Pentagon on a day-to-day basis, he relies on others, most notably Deputy Secretary Frank Carlucci, to plan, budget and analyze. Weinberger, unlike some of his predecessors, such as Robert McNamara and Harold Brown, does not immerse himself in the details of his job, and thus he is not as knowledgeable about his department's programs as he should be. The result: he is much more likely to okay the recommendations handed...
Kirby and Sen. Paul Harold (D-Quincy) represent the area served by the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, one of the only business groups to publicly oppose repeal...
...Harold argued the change will hurt down towns, whose stores will not be able to coordinate Sunday openings like shopping malls can. The money in sales gained by the malls will be lost by downtown retailers, he said...
...prime time should be limited to 9½ min. an hour (14 min. for independent stations). The Government filed suit against the N.A.B. in 1979, charging that the code had driven up advertising costs by restricting the supply of air time for commercials. Last week U.S. District Court Judge Harold H. Greene signed a consent decree under which the N.A.B. and Justice agreed to eliminate the restraints. Now, theoretically at least, station owners can flood the air with commericals...
Among which, according to all sources, are the novels of Jacqueline Susann and/or Harold Robbins, bottles of Johnnie Walker Scotch and/or cognac, tennis racquets (he is called a tennis "fiend") and perhaps a book or two on China, in which he is thought to hold an "amateur interest." That is about as far as the pieces take us. We have the fact of his terrible eyesight, which might explain his fiendishness on the tennis court, and we have one instance of his sense of humor, when he urged a cognac on a reluctant dinner companion, telling...