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Whitley, a junior returning for her third year in net, had a successful if not very busy weekend. While a relentless Crimson offense forced Lion and Cardinal goalies to make a total of 32 saves, Whitley had to repel only 12 shots over two games--and all three of Columbia's came on free kicks...
About the same time, Tisch reportedly began disagreeing aloud with Wyman's optimistic assessments of CBS's future. He wondered whether the incumbent chairman's management style encouraged creativity, and began comparing Wyman's methods unfavorably with those of Paley. At the same time Tisch, a relentless bottom-line manager, cast doubt on whether Wyman's austerity measures, which have saved at least $100 million this year, were enough...
Many had witnessed John Belushi's final, drug-filled days in Hollywood, but no one could steer the actor away from his relentless drive for cocaine and, in the end, heroin. Among friends, reports of the comic's marathon binges made his untimely death seem inevitable: another star caught in the darker currents of celebrity...
...despair, provides a ripe market for the world's drug supply, which will always exist as long as there is the demand for it. Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless pressure to perform in a fast-paced society. "The real remedies to the problem don't satisfy Americans' urge for a quick fix," says Ted Galen Carpenter of the CATO Institute, a Washington think tank. "It's a long, laborious process." Merely preaching about the evils of dope...
...with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with his needs, with what he wanted out of life -- a certain level of power, authority. He was relentless." Did the old stand-up routines interfere with his portrayal? "They were sketches," he says. "An artist will do a caricature in a few minutes. To do a full oil portrait takes time. I like to think LBJ is an oil portrait...