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Game disqualifications don't carry over to the next season. So while Kwong must sit out one of the most important games of his career, Scott Reston, Brad Martel and Wasten need never miss a game...
...called Classic Country Cottage in Reston, Va., is indeed a small (1,500 sq. ft.), compact cottage. Clever manipulation of the two-level interior spaces, however, makes it look and feel much larger. Designed by Woodstock, N.Y., Architect Lester Walker, the house is made entirely of wood, with cedar bevel siding and bright blue trim. This model home was sponsored by the American Wood Council and House Beautiful magazine...
...Among the losers in this presidential election campaign you will have to include the nosy scribblers of the press," wrote the New York Times's James Reston last Sunday. "Not since the days of H.L. Mencken have so many reporters written so much or so well about the shortcomings of the President and influenced so few voters." Reston and those like Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft, who lamented in the past few weeks that "greed sits in the American saddle," are more accustomed to being the Pied Pipers of Middle America, marching jauntily out front with majorities forming obediently behind...
...press without being burned by it, but never before have the marketers of candidates so successfully evaded real press scrutiny while staging controlled events that show their candidates to best advantage on television. The Reagan people have had four years of practice at it. Columnist James Reston of the New York Times, who has seen Presidents come and go (he is a few steps short of 75), ruefully describes them as "the best public relations team ever to enter the White House." They got away with cutting presidential press conferences to the fewest in ten years, knowing these can expose...
Print journalists continue to do their job, which sometimes involves correcting a President's facts, recording divisions in his Administration or noting his own inattention to affairs, but they wonder how many want to hear it. Two months ago Reston noted "the remarkable gap between public opinion and inside-Washington opinion." Pulitzer Prizewinner Haynes Johnson of the Washington Post began one report: "So far, he's proving Lincoln was right. You can fool all of the people some of the time." The Post's David Broder discouragingly described "a nation that does not want to be bothered...