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...never held elective office, Kirkpatrick's following has grown to the point where she is increasingly viewed as national ticket material in 1988. Dolan can even imagine a presidential race between her and Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca, running as a Democrat. More restrained assessments put her in the front rank of possible G.O.P. vice-presidential candidates. As Republican Political Consultant Lyn Nofziger notes, in a wry reference to Democrat Geraldine Ferraro's groundbreaking 1984 bid for the job, "It wouldn't be the first time a woman had been nominated for Vice President." Along with her appeal to male conservatives...
...choices are far from the only revelations in the $14.95 Almanac, which ) ranks all of the nation's 329 metropolitan areas, where more than 75% of all Americans reside. Since 1981, when the first edition appeared, the fortunes of a number of cities have changed. One reason: this time around Authors Richard Boyer and David Savageau have refined their nine "livability" criteria. Data about climate, housing, health care, crime, transportation, education, culture, recreation and economics are now weighted by such qualities as "fortunate circumstances of geography" and "outdoor recreational assets." Third-ranked Raleigh-Durham, N.C., moved up from ninth place...
...amenities of nearby major cities. Suburban Norwalk, Conn., for example, gained points for New York City's top standing in the arts and health care, but was not penalized for New York's last-place rating in crime. Thus Norwalk went from 148th place to ninth. New York's rank is 25th...
...Marine Corps manages to lure some pretty good women as well. Last week a Marine promotion board recommended the advancement of Colonel Gail Reals to brigadier general. A career officer with 30 years' experience, Reals, 49, is the first woman Marine to reach the one-star rank since the corps integrated its male and female ranks in 1981. After Senate confirmation, she will join eleven other female generals and admirals serving in the armed forces...
...probably the most impressive stretch of Greene's long career: the years between Brighton Rock (1938) and The Third Man (1950), during which he also produced such novels as The Power and the Glory (1940) and The Heart of the Matter (1948). The Tenth Man is too spare to rank as a full partner in such company, but it springs from the same haunting and entertainingly obsessed imagination...