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...Army is the first military branch to act on a Defense Department goal to reduce smoking to 25% throughout the military by 1990. The example starts at the top: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Army Secretary John Marsh and Army Chief of Staff John Wickham are all nonsmokers...
...Jordan Marsh...
...DIED. Marsh Clark, 56, a TIME correspondent for 22 years whose career as bureau chief in New York City and six foreign countries frequently took him to centers of combat and conflict, including Saigon (1968-70), Jerusalem (1970-72 and again during the October War of 1973), Moscow during the waning of detente (1975-78) and, since 1980, volatile South Africa; of cancer; in Johannesburg...
...about as wondrous as East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody of evil...
...century -- and even more, the end of a millennium -- brings anxiety with it: the unavoidable doubts and mannerisms of the fin de siecle, when every kind of stylistic bubble rises to the cultural surface, swells and bursts with a soft plop and a whiff, while marsh lights flicker and the cultural promoters croak their Aristophanic chorus. The SoHo Tar Pits: heaven for the market, purgatory (or limbo, anyway) for judgment...