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...freeze on missile production and deployment during negotiations will probably harden U.S. resolve to stick to its guns at the talks. Mindful of the Carter administration's disastrous bargaining attempts, the Reagan administration is steadfastly determined not to follow suit. Last week, administration officials acted quickly to hush up reports that it had a fall-back position prepared in case the Soviets reject the "zero-option." If the Soviets are to score any points, they will have to do so at the negotiating table...
...stepfather introduced her to sex by raping her, her mother abandoned her, and she and her younger brother lived as derided, sometimes ridiculous, children. Angelou's distance from the child gave the novel its power, allowed her to comfort her young self and to use the book to hush the frightened baby still left inside the creative adult...
...financially ailing 134-year-old daily, which has lost $31.2 million since 1979-$10.3 million in the first half of this year-will publish its last edition on Aug. 16 unless the paper's eight unions agree to $5 million a year in cutbacks. The announcement brought a hush to the usually bustling newsroom. Said Bulletin Columnist Rose DeWolf: "You could hear a mosquito buzz...
...Conrad, TV's Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono reached 400 Ibs. before a recent diet took him down to 350. He played Bette Davis' father in Hush, Hush'. . . Sweet Charlotte when he was 25 and Davis was 55. Now 43, Buono longs for varied roles but tells himself, "In a business of visual types, you are a mountain...
...been repulsed by miners and peasants. The next morning a meeting in the countryside was interrupted by a special report. Someone turned up the radio: miners and campesinos crowded around as the network announced that Radio Huanuni had fallen and that the town was occupied. There was a hush in the group, a mixture of fear and anger...