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...Reporter, whose eleven columnists consume much of its news hole, normal reportorial standards are more than occasionally ignored. Things began to get better during the 1980-82 tenure of Martin Kent, one of some 20 editors who have moved through the revolving door since Founder William Wilkerson opened the paper on the site of his former haberdashery in 1930. Says a onetime staffer: "Until Kent came, they mostly took press releases and perhaps pencil-edited them a little and slapped them onto the front page. They would not even call to check items out." Kent departed in June after...
...vulnerability of its energy lifelines: the islands rely almost entirely on outside oil for fuel. Last year they used more than 45 million bbl., or $1.5 billion worth, nearly two-thirds of it from foreign sources. "Hawaii is more dependent on imported oil than any other state," says Kent Keith, deputy director of Hawaii's department of planning and economic development. But Keith points out: "Our potential for energy self-sufficiency may also be greater than that of any other state." In the past ten years Hawaii has channeled an astonishing $65 million into researching and developing such alternative...
...newspaper articles that she is no stranger to the ways of the upper classes. Related to both Charles and Prince Philip, she calls Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia "Mom" and is a cousin of Queen Sofia of Spain. The late Princess Marina of Greece, also known as the Duchess of Kent, was a great aunt. Hair trimmed and parted to the side Diana-style, Catherine hauntingly resembles the real-life queen...
...producer has come up with a co-Caped Crusader: Richard Pryor, 41. In a part the folks at DC Comics never dreamed of, Pryor plays Gus Gorman, a computer wizard who dons tablecloth and skis for a lame demonstration of his own superpowers. Sm3 takes mild-mannered Clark Kent back to his high school reunion and a rekindled romance with Lana Lang, played by Annette O'Toole, 30, (Cat People). O'Toole may be beautiful, but her co-star is hot, and as Director Billy Wilder said, when film makers are in doubt, "they all come up with...
Were there other questions worth asking in that turbid decade-about wars, revolutions, anything more dramatic than a lunar hemline? There were, but few seem interested in them now. The frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and familiar faces. How else to explain the post-mortem celebrity of Edie Sedgwick? Once a footnote in any pop history of the decade, she is now the summer's hot number. Edie (Knopf...