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Peter and Franny Martin, the Boston butchers who own Timely Writer, tried not to be too sad. In a bright show of horsemanship, the brothers attended all of the Derby functions in Louisville between commutes to Lexington to visit their recuperating pet. At each expression of condolence, Peter Martin would say, "I'm a realist. The road to the roses is strewn with broken hearts." One inconsolable woman replied, "But I'm a dreamer." "Ah, there's your problem," he told her gently. "Dreamers get hurt...
Congress has fallen into other bad habits. Knowing how hazardous and time consuming it is to push a controversial bill through the multilayered committee system, legislators increasingly tack their pet proposals onto major bills as riders. Right-wing advocates of so-called social issues have placed anti-school busing and pro-prayer riders onto a number of Justice Department funding bills. There is even an antiabortion rider attached to this year's appropriations bill for the Postal Service. These irrelevant amendments rarely survive both houses, but legislators waste valuable time in the process of shedding them...
...someone trying to shepherd a budget-cutting revolution through Congress. The most egre gious example is the Clinch River breeder reactor, a costly ($3.2 billion) boondoggle that both Jimmy Carter and, initially, Ronald Reagan tried to scuttle. Baker was "in every direction" trying to win votes for this pet project, says Senator Lugar. Baker, a former member of the old Atomic Energy Committee, says he truly believes in breeder reactors, which produce as much fuel as they consume or more, despite the skepticism now expressed by most nuclear-energy scientists...
...Randall (H). Long Jump--1. Johnson (H), 6.68m; 2. Henry (H); 3. Udo (H). Triple jump--1. Henry (H) 14.50m; 2. Udo (H), 3. Hall (H). javelin--1. Cooper (D) 60.77m; 2. Fox (D). 3. Bower (H). Shot Put--1. Bpgdonovich (B) 15.82m; 2. Pet (D): 3. Jones (D). High Jump--Keefe (D) 6-ft 6-in; 2. Van Zandt (D) and Wirth...
...Fate of the Earth is occasionally repetitious, its prose sometimes convoluted, and in a few passages Schell gratuitously indulges in pet peeves and theories. For example, Schell-a confirmed Nixon hater whose last book, The Time of Illusion, was on Watergate-at one point suggests that Nixon could conceive of detente with the Soviet leaders partly because he and they shared a contempt for human rights. Not only is this charge dubious, to say the least, it is irrelevant to his thesis. Schell, like any writer, needs a good editor...