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The Soviets are approaching the Olympic challenge much as the ancient pharaohs went about building pyramids, with single-minded intensity and a cast of thousands. A total of 99 construction projects, either new buildings or major re-buildings, have been undertaken in connection with the games. Of these, 76 are...
> Joseph A. Califano Jr., the sharp-witted, liberal and independent-minded Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. His replacement, subject to Senate confirmation: Patricia Harris, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and first black woman in the Cabinet. Her successor at HUD has not been announced.
Coming on top of the energy speech, the Cabinet shake-up stunned commentators and ordinary citizens abroad. Disappointed with U.S. inaction on energy, European political leaders generally were happy to see Energy Secretary James Schlesinger go. They cheered the firing of Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who has never lived...
What a fount of facts! The latest news as well as stories filed in the New York Times information bank. Energy-saving suggestions and automotive news, theater directories and wine guides, horoscopes and biorhythms. For the academic, language tutorials and physics lessons. Recipes for the culinary minded, general ledgers and...
THE BIG BUDGET summer shockers--Prophecy, alien, The Omen in its time--are all wrong: humorless, literal-minded disasters. Horror movies thrive on satire, wit, ghoulish irreverence (or else elaborately-stylized reverence, as in the Hammar films, to the point where it's funny). Or else lots of erotic overtones...