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During the first five years of this decade, the placid community of Santa Barbara on Southern California's Pacific Coast witnessed nearly zero population growth. The head count of residents over the period increased a scant .58% and today stands at 72,500. Santa Barbarans have decided they like it that way. Last week they overwhelmingly approved a local proposition requiring voter approval of any city council moves that would allow the population to rise above 85,000. The referendum, as one resident put it, offered Santa Barbarans a chance "to vote on how big they want this seaside...
determined effrontery. On a larger scale, would-be reformers in the Soviet Union and East Europe have used the Communist governments' ratification of Helsinki as a lever to press for liberalization on many fronts, such as censorship and immigration-with scant success. The Kremlin and the other East bloc regimes have no intention of permitting the free flow of ideas and people that Helsinki calls...
Movies have expended much effort, and received scant reward, trying to revive that beloved figure of another age's popular culture-the private eye. They have lovingly re-created his old ambience (Farewell, My Lovely) and succeeded only in embalming him. They have also tried transplanting him, old knightly virtues intact, into our own time. But whether aware of his awkwardness in this era (The Black Bird) or seemingly oblivious of it (The Long Goodbye), the resulting films have been discomfiting...
...State Chairman Dick Richards, an early Reagan backer. Among the more remote possibilities for the job is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "Rummy" is one of the very few Ford Cabinet members who openly talks of a future in elective politics (see box page 24). But at 44, with scant savings and three children in school, he is more interested in taking a lucrative job in private industry and making some big money for a few years before deciding when and where to run for high office...
...women, Equal Times does have its good points. Essentially, it fills a gap and picks up the pieces left by the mainstream newspapers. While its news coverage is scanty in the first regular issue it does make an attempt to play up some items concerning women that normally receive scant attention elsewhere. But again, Equal Times fails its readers when it becomes too enamored with news of upper middle class women or women in upper middle class status jobs...