Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caucusing and quiet carousal. Asked again and again by reporters and well-wishers, the P.O.W.s insist that they are here only for fun, not politics. Yes, we're doing just fine, most of them say. "We're all back in the mainstream," silver-haired Navy Captain Howard Rutledge beams. "We've been to the worst place in the world. Every place else is a step...
...talking about ways to keep the lid on spending. He is even arguing that his $27 billion national health-care plan is the essence of frugality; otherwise health costs will be even higher. Teddy's heart may not be in the same place as the heart of Howard Jarvis, but Kennedy and his friends are getting good at the new lingo...
...While Howard Jarvis strutted around Washington and U.S. mayors fretted in Atlanta about how his tax-cutting crusade might hurt them, California struggled with a more immediate problem. On July 1, the end of this week, Jarvis' triumphantly successful Proposition 13 goes into effect, with its more than $7 billion slash in revenues from property taxes. As a select committee of six of the state legislature's most powerful members worked feverishly on a rescue plan, thousands of lobbyists flocked to Sacramento to apply pressure...
...producing Heaven Can Wait began over a year ago. Beatty was gearing up for two massive pet projects, film biographies of Billionaire Howard Hughes and John Reed, the messianic leftist author (Ten Days That Shook the World). Then Beatty decided to make a simpler movie first. "I thought I better do a nice yarn with a strong narrative," he says, "and Heaven Can Wait is all plot." Since the hero of Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a boxer, Beatty considered the film a good vehicle for Muhammad Ali, a friend whom he regards as a potential movie star...
...might try to get bleacher seats, but you'd have to go early--like the night before--and prepare to camp out. Your best bet, then, is to watch both games of this classic baseball rivalry on television...Monday night at 8:30, Channel 5, with the ubiquitous Howard Cosell to accompany you--ever wonder how many Americans at any given moment are screaming "Shut up, Howard!"? The holiday game will be Tuesday at 2:15 on Channel 38. Dig it. After that, the Sox leave town for a nice, long road trip. Catch them later, kids...