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...October. It will have to borrow $1.5 billion from the separate Medicare and disability-insurance funds to send out on time the checks that are to be mailed Nov. 3, the day after the election. The trust fund will need another $7 billion to $11 billion to maintain prompt payments through the first six months of 1983. After that, its borrowing authority expires...
...prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's flock of grandchildren. He has money and local roots old and deep enough to prompt invitations to the oligarchs' parties and all the charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with a local real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver, the beautiful young wife...
...that is the central dilemma confronting U.S. Middle East policy in the wake of the Beirut massacre. Teeth gritted, State Department and White House officials acknowledge that they must go on negotiating with the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, if only because any overt U.S. pressure would prompt disaffected Israelis to rally around him, making him even more defiant. But U.S. officials, despite their best diplomatic efforts, cannot hide a deep sense of betrayal. Put crudely, they now believe the Begin government has lied to them-repeatedly, deliberately, and in ways that tricked a gullible Washington into undermining...
...planet in years to come. Carrying special receivers tuned to standard international distress frequencies, these electronic watchdogs will be able to locate troubled craft equipped with inexpensive beacons almost anywhere on earth. Beaming their information back to the ground through a network of dish-shaped antennas, they should ensure prompt rescues of, say, a junk in the South China Sea or a yachtsman rounding the Horn singlehanded...
Telephones at intervals throughout the passageways allow the workers to make quick contact with the Science Center monitoring operation, and a hotline provides immediate communication with Cambridge Steam should the steam need to be shut off during an emergency. One might expect that only necessity would prompt a descent into Harvard's bowels. The tunnels are fairly small, approximately eight feet square on average, and crowded with pipes. The heat can be sweltering, ordinarily about 100*F but rising above 120* in the dead of winter when all steam lines are in use Damp stains and sporadic graffiti blotch...