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...course the liberals came up with a number of rationalizations for their support of Byrd, the primary one being that with a Democratic president in the White House, the Majority Leader's ideology was relatively unimportant. As one of Byrd's colleagues put it, "Byrd will just be a hollow log for (Carter and the Congress) to leave messages in." What was needed, they argued, was a capable manager who could secure the enactment of administration initiatives. As Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois said: "It seems to me that what the Senate needs more than anything else is management...
Gaunt and hollow-cheeked, he wore a gray-flecked crew cut that was clearly the work of a prison barber, and his be wilderment was plain. "You see," explained exiled Soviet Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "sometimes I still don 't know whether I'm free or still in prison. I've talked about nothing else but my life in prison since I arrived here. " The first political prisoner ever traded by the Soviets, Bukovsky, 33, had just been swapped for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia...
...Exactly 13½ hours after the DC-6 touchdown at Mount Pocono, a young American walked onto the 19th floor of a commercial office building in downtown Bogota and pumped three hollow-point bullets into Octavio González, 38, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Colombia. González slumped to the floor dead. The gunman quickly reloaded and, while secretaries scattered, fired several more shots before putting the revolver to his head and killing himself...
...million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously-as the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball...
...amounted to some high school theatricals back home in Quitman, Texas (she failed to qualify for the senior play, however); posing for a perfume ad; and landing a one-line part on a John Lennon-Yoko Ono record album. Prime Cut, which featured Spacek as a piece of hollow-eyed jailbait, did at least manage to get across a little of her country-fresh, city-smudged sensuality. Spacek (the name is Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced to rhyme with "basic") looks a little like a White Rock girl who slipped off the soda bottle to spend a summer...