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...brought chills to millions of summer vacations with Jaws and The Deep has returned. But this time out, Peter Benchley has jettisoned the oversexed surf-and-turfers in favor of Timothy Burnham, a fortyish journalist turned speechwriter whose only obsession is quoting the wisdom of Samuel Johnson, as in ''No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.'' Burnham writes not only for money but for President Benjamin T. Winslow, bullying, foul-tongued and Johnsonesque (Lyndon, not Samuel), and the assignments are rarely more demanding than ''Representative Whipple has told me a great deal about the fine work...
...sure. Do we want another President who, like Jimmy Carter, cannot delegate responsibility or who, like Richard Nixon, reacts to criticism by feeling that he is under siege? Do we want a President who considers political conflicts to be personal affronts and responds with physical intimidation, as Lyndon Johnson sometimes did? These may be attributes of past Presidents, but presidential attributes they are not. Ward R. Hitt White Plains, N.Y. As one who worked side by side with Mario Cuomo for eight years in the cabinet of Governor Hugh Carey, and who served as commissioner of transportation in the Cuomo...
DIED. Merle Miller, 67, author who turned taped interviews into controversial oral histories of Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson; of an abdominal infection; in Danbury, Conn...
...they were joined by soldiers from their respective states - Illinois, Nebraska and Rhode Island - for convivial conversations about what was going on in Afghanistan, life back at home, and the presidential campaign. "The food was good, but the companionship and friendship was even better," says Lt. Col. David Johnson, a public affairs officer who attended the event...
...think Ronald Reagan, and Nixon, and Johnson, for goodness' sake. I think more often than not we happen to elect guys that are good for my business. Bush has been great because, to get pretentious for a moment, Freud says you laugh about what you fear. On that basis, Bush has provided many more laughs, because the fear level has gone up so drastically...