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...justifiably high. The economy is supposed to be on its last legs, but that would be hard to prove looking across the country as the country itself looks toward the new year. In Nashville a new museum will open in June, thus completing the $40 million James K. Polk Center for the Performing Arts. The National Aquarium in Baltimore, whose projected cost is $21.5 million, is scheduled to open on July 1. Los Angeles will focus its bicentennial celebrations on creating apartments and day care centers for the poor. Chicago, Minneapolis and New York City are teeming with construction sites...
...good many former Presidents were known as "The" some thing- "The Napoleon of the Stump" (Polk); "The Sage of Wheatland" (Buchanan); "The Squire of Hyde Park." Perhaps Mr. Reagan will come to be known as "The Squire of Rancho del Cielo," or "The Gipper," in reference to his second most memorable movie role, or in reference to the first, "The Rest of Me." New York Builder Donald Trump is called "The Donald" by Mrs. Trump, so we might call Mr. Reagan "The Ronald." It is too early to tell...
...editors mysteriously decided to include the spellings of every nation in the world and their capitals (Umtata is the capital of Transkei) but to avoid all personal names except those of the 40 Presidents of the United States. Vice-presidents (too bad for fans of George Mifflin Dallas, Polk's v.p.) don't make it; and Ronald Reagan didn't make press time...
...that psychology is changing. As inflation reduces real incomes and recession erodes job security, office employees are starting to look for a union label. Says Teamster Organizer Regina Polk: "The white collar worker is coming around to realizing that while he is enjoying titles and so-called professionalism, the guy in the warehouse is earning more...
Wiseman looked at the 1978 exercises, grandiloquently titled Operation Autumn Forge, through the eyes of an American infantry tank company. He flew with them from their base at Fort Polk, La., attended the ceremonies welcoming them to Germany and then followed them into the field. His camera makes no judgments, but the Pentagon should be happy with the result: American soldiers may have the foulest mouths in the world but, for the most part, they seem also to be intelligent and hardworking...