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Caspar Weinberger was somewhere above the Atlantic, returning to Washington from one of his many missions abroad. I took the opportunity to call him aboard his aircraft and mention that it behooved us all to speak cautiously in public, and especially to the press, on this issue. Weinberger's tendency to blurt out locker-room opinions in the guise of policy was one that I prayed he might overcome. If God heard, He did not answer in any way understandable to me. The arduous duty of construing the meaning of Cap Weinberger's public sayings was a steady...
...fallen for him like this? In part it was simply overwhelming sexual attraction: the eyes, the skin, the beard, the hands.... And there were Russell's accomplishments: his story in The New Yorker, his national political lobby. And he did play the violin, not to mention soccer. Lauren was not above being bowled over by some qualifications which had convinced the Harvard admissions committee...
Senior Co-Captain Landya Boyer, a centerfielder from Montrose, Va., has been Honorable Mention All-Ivy for the last two years. She hit .340 last season and was solid defensively. Coach John Wentzell calls Boyer "a leader both on and off the field...
Although Congress has just recently woken up to the danger of the oil takeovers--not to mention similar horror stories in the steel and railroad industries--nobody has done anything to stop them. The 1961 Reagan tax cuts for corporations gave them the fuel for their orgiastic frenzy of violent buyouts: the impotence of his attorney general in stopping them has acted as encouragement...
While few of Hart's supporters are familiar with his substantive positions in detail, a surprisingly large number mention his approach to the nation's defense as one thing that attracted them. Says Steven Nesich, 30, a marketing consultant from Seattle: "The Reaganites have a knee-jerk reaction to defense: 'Build it.' The liberals have a knee-jerk reaction: 'Don't build it.' Hart sees a leaner, tougher defense that would cost us far less and be more effective...