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...Stallone's lavish, sprawling house behind a high brick wall and green canvas gates in Pacific Palisades, slightly to the left of Beverly Hills, film memorabilia vie for space with fine art in rooms accented with rich woods and polished brass. A mammoth Leroy Neiman portrait of Rocky hangs near a Rodin sculpture, a boxer's headguard inscribed "To Sly from Muhammad Ali" rests near Andy Warhol oils. Another treasured possession is a worn photo album that the star uses to document his "roaches to riches" story. Stallone, dressed in running shoes and warmup suit, puffing...
During the day, about 30 employees install and tune the six mammoth engines, which each look something like a car engine one-fourth the length of a football field...
...clearer. But the book is far from disjointed. Each anecdote of woe, each unfortunate experience, each tale of persecution fleshes out Butterfield's vision of official happy China's less appealing underside. More importantly, several significant themes reverberate throughout the work and color the reader's perceptions of this mammoth country...
...broke off their sessions when L.B.J. began pressing for a puff piece. No one can accuse the author of delivering one. His book is very light on endearing anecdotes, and it is unlikely to match in sweep and detail the first volume, to be published next fall, of a mammoth Johnson trilogy by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro. But Dugger is a digger-wide-ranging, thorough, judicious. He deserves an award for footnotes alone (69 pages of them, in tiny, tiny type). He has the goods...
What causes these financial jitters is primarily the mammoth size of projected budget deficits. Experts now generally predict that the Government will run perhaps $500 billion in the red during the next four years. Investors are fearful that the Federal Reserve will be forced to accelerate its expansion of the money supply to meet the Government's borrowing needs and thus rekindle inflation...