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...seems hard to believe, but a Ralph Nader lieutenant now bears the chief responsibility for U.S. auto safety as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. As if that were not enough, the consumerist who once sued the Agriculture Department over its beef grading and food-stamp rules is now Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, overseeing the same grading of meat and food-stamp programs...
Today Foreman manages a staff of 13,000 and a staggering budget of $9 billion, which is largely spent on nutritional and food-stamp programs. Foreman has control of drafting specifications for almost all federal food purchases, including those of the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration. She has taken steps to reduce the sugar, salt and fat content of school breakfasts and lunches; proposed a regulation that would remove Super Donuts and other fortified pastries from school breakfast programs; successfully lobbied for a law banning junk food in school vending machines; helped to persuade Congress to drop requirements that food...
...will try to put his own stamp on history, just like any leader," Napier said, adding that Ohira might increase social welfare programs or try to take a more active role in international affairs...
...Third Kind, they wanted to find out what flying saucers and extraterrestrial beings might look like. In Superman, they will want to see if modern movie technology can make a man fly convincingly. "The film stands or falls on whether the characters appear to fly," says Terence Stamp, who plays the villainous General Zod. "If they do, the picture is a success." By Stamp's definition, at any rate, the movie will be a smash. Superman not only flies better and faster than any bird or plane, but he does aerial acrobatics that would cause an eagle to fasten...
...infusions of scriptwriters, two directors and a change of location from Rome to London, after many sets had been constructed in Italy. At one time a money shortage almost caused production to stop. Marlon Brando had walked off with his $3.7 million for playing Superman's father, but Stamp was told that he could not be paid on time. Tempers were frayed, and Donner and Spengler stopped speaking to each other. With the film in the can and a potential fortune in sight, the old bonds have been renewed. Donner, for his part, is only afraid that there...