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Next to the pocket battlefields and miniature gridirons made possible by the microprocessor revolution, though, talking insides is old hat. There is one descendant of the line left, a Mork (of "and Mindy" fame) doll. For under $10 you can pull his string and he will say "Na-No, Na-No and seven other crazy things...
...dominating figure of past appearances on Capitol Hill. In fact, he was carefully hidden from public view in the office of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. Nonetheless, there was David Stockman doing what he does best, hunching over a desk in shirtsleeves to tap out spending estimates on a pocket calculator. His typically virtuoso performance may have saved...
Dressed in crisp glen plaids, a white handkerchief neatly puffed from breast pocket, Haig is a dandy. He seems the very model of the modern military diplomat. He has a square face, a terrier's chin and eyes that obscure a great deal. He loves his work. He just may win his campaign to be the predominant formulator of foreign policy...
...everyone does it"-never was expressed so emphatically or officially as in a district court in New Mexico last July. When former University of New Mexico Coach Norm Ellenberger was convicted of defrauding the state and making false public vouchers (in order to use the money as a back-pocket fund for recruits), Judge Phillip Baiamonte pronounced sentence by wondering, "How fair is it to incarcerate in prison a coach who was basically doing what almost everybody in this community wanted him to do? Namely, win basketball games at any cost. . . I'm being asked to sentence...
Arthur Hollingsworth, seven-man on the heavyweight first boat, said his crew was well prepared for the Charles' chill winds, which were especially severe while the crews were waiting to dock. "The two-man carried a flask of brandy in his pocket--that warmed us up in no time," he added...