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Weinberger is a team player and loyalist who through long association has won Reagan's absolute trust. Those qualities are important in any President's Cabinet; in Reagan's they loom as vital. In addition, Weinberger will probably be the only Cabinet member who was part of Reagan's cabinet in California, where Reagan governed largely through an executive committee of senior officers, just as he intends to do in Washington...
...going along at 30 miles an hour, then 20, then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns. The car clatters, the body shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast, the La Sal Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting the Six-Shooter Peaks, then Cathedral Butte. The Colorado and Green rivers meander deep in the shadows, carving...
Yale and especially Princeton loom as the major obstacles to the racquetwomen's designs on a number-one ranking. The perenially powerful Tigers, the Bulldogs and the Crimson will participate in the Howe Cup competition in February...
...while its instruments and television cameras blinked away furiously, almost as if they had a life of their own. So large did Saturn loom in the robot's probing electronic eyes that they could capture only small swatches of the planet's stormy atmosphere. The spacecraft executed its maneuvers with astonishing precision - near the climax of its long journey it was only 19 km (12 miles) off course. Finally, Voyager climbed upward, once again crossing just outside Saturn's rings. Casting backward glances with its cameras and instruments, it soared above the ecliptic - the plane formed...
Though Wheaton draws from all Christian denominations-and gets no church subsidy-it does well enough in giving ($7.3 million last year) to pay higher salaries than the average church-related college. Long-range money problems loom, of course. And beyond them is the specter of the Supreme Court and the U.S. Government...