Word: salt
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Good photographers are among the last survivors of a more swashbuckling era of journalism. As the news has become more complicated, a good reporter does much of his best work at his desk sifting through piles of research to understand and make to his readers the likes of SALT and MIRV and je skirmishes of the Battle of the Budget. A photographer, on other hand, must be in the heat of the action, whether it is a or a natural disaster- or a budget meeting. "If you are a reporter you can be behind the front line and still...
Nitze quit as one of Richard Nixon's SALT negotiators in 1974 when he came to the conclusion that the Watergate crisis was making Nixon so desperate for a treaty that he was willing to sacrifice U.S. interests. Nitze's fear that SALT II would leave the U.S. vulnerable to a surprise Soviet attack led him to become the Carter Administration's most visible, tireless and technically well-informed opponent in the debate over Senate ratification of the treaty. Yet while Nitze's reputation is hawkish, he has never called for a return to military superiority...
...Japanese. Among other tips, Bossert advises that a little Vaseline strategically applied to the inside of a cube will make its parts rotate faster. He can unscramble a lubed cube in 45 seconds. His royalties so far have totaled more than $100,000, but his father plans to salt most of that money away for his son's education and other future needs. Still, classmates at his Richmond school often greet the boy with the plea, "Can you lend me a fiver?" Bossert has just diversified his fledgling business by taping a half-hour video cassette that demonstrates...
Garfield was rejected by two syndicates (King Features and Chicago Tribune-New York News) before United Feature signed Davis to a contract in 1978. Not everyone loved his disreputable feline. Editors in Chicago, Salt Lake City and Little Rock, Ark., canceled the strip after test runs. But irate readers forced all three papers to reinstate it. 'Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges," says Davis. "Cats have the courage to live by them-that's what Garfield is all about...
...JENNY STRICKER ordered apples and oranges for dessert.... Co-captain KRISTIN LINSLEY found out what it's like to be a pilot in Pocotello. Because the city is not large enough for a major carrier to fly in and out the harriers flew in a puddle-jumper to Salt Lake City after the competition, where they caught a plane bound for Boston. The plane was so tiny, however, that Linsley's seat was next to the pilot up front...