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Without destroying tradition, Qabus is determined to catch up to the 20th century. "We are starting from scratch, like a child growing up, and it is going to take a good deal of doing," he said. "Americans are using sophisticated equipment to explore the moon. We in Oman are building our first primary schools...
...further that Ali MacGraw promises to become the closest thing to a movie star of the '40s. She calls her lover/husband "Preppie" about 900 times too often; she sometimes seems case-hardened enough to scratch a diamond. But she is genuinely touching when she wishes aloud that her name was Wendy Wasp. And she is in a part as actor-proof as Camille. When a Radcliffe girl chooses to die onscreen, the Academy Awards can be heard softly rustling like Kleenexes in the background...
...lower Manhattan is Fraunces Tavern, located three blocks on Broad Street from the New York Stock Exchange. A typical Georgian Colonial tavern, it is the location of Washington's farewell to his troops in 1783, as a sign proudly proclaims. There is one problem. The building was constructed from scratch...
...skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length nightie with a pair of shocking-pink hands appliqueed on the breasts. Together they begin just the kind of odd courtship one would expect of two such urban animals. They claw, they scratch, they separate, they make up. Both are elaborately cloaked with pretense: Felix as the unpublished author, Doris as the actress-hooker...
...concentrated on court congestion in recent years, a key roadblock is the over-compartmentalizing of judges. Most cities assign one judge to handle all arraignments, another for all motions, and so on. Prosecutors and even public defenders are often assigned the same way. Thus all have to start from scratch at each level. Justice Clark and other experts urge that a single judge should handle each case from start to finish. The experimental reform has already speeded up court work in San Francisco, Cleveland and Pittsburgh...