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Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has scoffed at Weinberger's request as just an "expensive going-away present for Navy Secretary Lehman," while Democratic Senator Carl Levin has noted that the Pentagon's annual report to Congress last year said the two oldest carriers in the Navy's fleet did not have to be replaced until the 1990s. At a public hearing, Levin asked Weinberger, "How in the world did these two carriers slip into the budget?" The Secretary insisted that nothing had changed; since each takes about seven years to build, he was still merely "asking...
Sternfeld's America looks inhabited but never quite settled, full of lovelorn suburban tracts and derelict factories where the banshees howl through the rusting work sheds. When recession comes -- a number of these pictures were taken during the slump of 1981-82 -- the oldest company towns in New England fall like the flimsiest trailer camp in Arizona. When times are good, the wilderness is shown being minced into salable acreage. Above it all, the sky rings its changes, slate blue in one picture, cornflower in the next, baby's-bottom pink in another. It is the last unspoiled stretch...
...Steve Carlton established a new major league record when they became the first tandem of 300-game winners to pitch in the same game for the same team. They also join Don Sutton, Tommy John and Phil's brother Joe as pitchers with ages over 40. Name the oldest pitcher to have ever pitched in a major league game...
...middle, the escalating restiveness and violence provoked by a system too rigid to bend, is now. And surely an end, whether it be awful or awesome, must come. Unlike such interminably troubled spots as Northern Ireland or the Middle East, South Africa generates each day one of the oldest questions to capture human attention: What will happen next...
...beginning, America was a blank page, in Tocqueville's phrase: no history, all potential. Today America, the oldest continuous political system in the world, has a full page of history and heavy debts to pay. The campaign of 1988 could be one of the more interesting and important in recent history. There is no incumbent; neither party has an obvious heir apparent. The nation will perform the very American act of reimagining itself...