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...years old and you're never had a job your family is God fearing and practice to the core. Perhaps and Perhaps your dad works on an assembly line, and so will one day. In either case when your slight number camas up you'll go. There's no doubt about...
...Adams pushed toward the vortex of events. In Washington in 1869 he wrote brilliant articles on the corruption in the Grant Administration. When liberal Republicans tried to overthrow President Grant by nominating Henry's father, Charles Francis Adams, Henry exulted: "Just now I am engaged singlehanded in the slight task of organizing a new party to contest the next presidential election...
...sometime novelist (Entertaining Strangers, The Gospel According to Joe) and television scriptwriter (an adaptation for PBS of the John Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that...
...defense spending, which constitutes 6% of G.N.P. Although a fortnight ago the CIA lowered its estimate of the annual growth in Soviet military spending from about 3% a year to 2%, a substantial change and one that the Pentagon does not agree with, both agencies do agree that the slight dip in the rate of weapons production reflected in last week's report is only temporary. Explains Weinberger: "They have completed various series of weaponry and are switching over to a new series. They never stop; they have not stopped for 21 years. Whatever the precise growth rate...
...Slight as it is, the plot is yet sturdy enough for Rodgers and Hart to hang on it half a dozen of their most charming songs. There's a Small Hotel is the best known, but there are also the bittersweet Glad to Be Unhappy, the witty Too Good for the Average Man, the wise and worldly The Heart Is Quicker Than the Eye and the bluesy Quiet Night...