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...then it follows that Rex Harrison, who was the original Henry Higgins, must be 25 years older than he was then-that is, 73. Now Harrison is a splendid 73, more attractive at three score and 13 than most men are at 37, and his voice will doubtless retain its music when he is 103. But he is perhaps 20 years older than Higgins, the most irascible misogynist since Jack the Ripper, ought to be. Neither Shaw nor Lerner ever indicated that the professor and the flower girl would wind up in a clinch, but the possibility, which gave...
...freight remains scarcely affected by the new restrictions, since cargo flights normally operate in the relatively quiet hours of the night. Essential military flights retain top priority. General aviation, which includes private traffic ranging from two-seaters to large corporate jets, has been cut back the most. The FAA is allowing its control centers to accept only about 35% of the previous level of such aircraft, which normally account for about 44% of the controllers' total work load. Both military and private pilots, however, can fly freely outside of controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR)-and are doing...
Meanwhile, tension was rising between the White House and the oversight committees on just how much flexibility the CIA should be given to conduct covert operations and plant undercover agents abroad. The committees want to retain their own close surveillance in order to prevent the kind of excesses that caused the CIA so much public grief in the 1970s. Reagan, however, has prepared an Executive order under which many of the restrictions imposed on the agency by the Carter Administration would be lifted. The CIA, for example, might be able to use the Peace Corps and students abroad as undercover...
...supports the proposition that policemen, nurses in public hospitals, garbagemen, and air traffic controllers have the right to eat well, to work in safe conditions, and to retain their dignity on the job, then one must also support their right to strike--without it, or without the mandatory arbitration used for public safety employees in this state--the right to unionize is meaningless. And though the air traffic controllers present an easy target, being well-paid if overworked and subjected to ulcer-inspiring stress, they will be just the start. Before long, all public employees will be facing pink slips...
...ruling erases all of Plucknett's performances since January, including one world record set last May in Modesto, Calif., and the second in Stockholm this month. He will, however, retain a less desirable record: first person to lose a world mark because of steroid use. That distinction is unlikely to last. Scores of athletes routinely use steroids, and as Plucknett knows, records are made to be broken...