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...move!" She began lumbering around the room knocking over bookcases and smashing her rare collection of African fertility statuettes which bore an eerie resemblance to the little baseball players with bobbing round heads you can pick up at highway restaurants. After she had smashed the Willie Mays and Fred Lynn figures she hurled her awesome ire blazing in my direction...
Several of the authors are stars in their own right. Robert Coles, Kenneth Lynn, Roger Rosenblatt and Nathan Glazer have at one time or another written enlightening pieces on their subject matter in this issue: work, American literature, television and ethnicity. But perhaps these writers' familiarity with their topics led to the chief drawback in this issue of Dadalus. No one seems to have expended much energy or given any new thought to his or her topic...
...school that nine-year-old Amy may attend,* Carter held court in the red, book-lined library on the second floor of Blair House. He was briefed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Treasury Secretary William Simon, HEW Secretary David Mathews, Director of the Office of Management and Budget James Lynn and, lastly, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, the crusty monetary conservative with whom Carter will have to learn to live in the months ahead. The visitors gave Carter good marks for asking "the right questions," but they felt that the one-hour sessions were too brief...
...those with Ford in California, there was work as well as play. Chief Speechwriter Robert Hartmann began preparing Ford's final State of the Union message; Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, labored over the annual economic report. Back in Washington, OMB Director James Lynn was putting in twelve-to 14-hour days on budget options for Ford...
...bill to eliminate part-time district court judgeships in Massachusetts. Part-time judgeships were lucrative for judges, who were allowed to maintain private law practices, and for politicians, for whom they were patronage gold mines. It was no surprise, then, when the House leadership, under Speaker Thomas McGee of Lynn, fought against Markey's bill. It passed despite their objections, and McGee, known around the State House for his pettiness, gained his revenge by throwing Markey off the Judiciary Committee, and having his desk moved out into the hall...