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...port district recorded a surplus of more than $6 billion. Miami International Airport, now the nation's second largest international passenger and cargo hub, is poised to overtake New York City's Kennedy International Airport by 1995-96. It is already the world's fifth busiest cargo airport. Ships sail from Biscayne Bay to virtually every port in the world, from Barranquilla to Bombay...
Books: Patrick O'Brian sets sail toward fame...
Certainly the President is under no illusion that his bill is likely to sail through with few changes. The latest poll for TIME by Yankelovich Partners Inc. confirms what nearly all observers had sensed: his plan has suffered a serious loss of support since he outlined it in a stirring speech to Congress on Sept. 22. The next day, 57% of those polled generally approved, but last week only 43% did; 36% were opposed, vs. 31% five weeks earlier, and the proportion of those "not sure" increased from 12% to 21%. Responses to some more detailed questions indicated worse trouble...
...complete, and the scoreboard showed 216-216. Deadlock would have meant defeat. Whereupon Williams and Margolies-Mezvinsky went to the rostrum and cast their ayes on paper. "I did it not so much for the budget," Williams said, "as for movement. My vote was to help us set sail again...
...BOTTOM LINE: Though he never dives deep, Halberstam offers an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade...