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...Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976) and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981) together earned the coolly glamorous author $2.5 million. The new tome, Women and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (Knopf; $24.95), is characteristically grandiose in scope, murky in methodology -- and right on target for commercial appeal. Having spent seven years analyzing a survey of the views of some 4,500 American women, Hite has concluded that they are fed up with the male of the species. "What is going on right now in the minds of women is a large-scale cultural revolution...
Kramer's size and speed have been a big reason why Harvard remains undefeated this season Six-feet, one-Harbor, N.Y., is quick in the front inch tall, the native of Cold Spring field and tall enough to be an inviting target for the midfielders' centering passes. His most exciting talent is his ability to change his pace and fool defenders...
...Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Aides to Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, another Democratic presidential hopeful and the focus of early suspicion, appear to have done little more than call the attention of reporters to an already published story after the uproar had begun. The Reagan White House, also a target of rumor and innuendo, denies any involvement...
...said. If all goes according to plan, the first edition of the reborn La Prensa will appear Oct. 1. The paper has enough Soviet-supplied newsprint left to publish 27 daily editions. "After that," says Chamorro, "who knows?" That same question could be asked about the Oct. 4 target date for talks between the combatants in both - Nicaragua and El Salvador -- and, for that matter, about the future of peace in Central America...
...deficits go on, the greater the economic hangover that is likely to result when the fiscal pick-me-up is finally cut off. Last week the House and Senate passed a measure that would revive the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law and stanch the federal red ink to a target of $144 billion during the 1988 fiscal year. Though President Reagan will sign the bill this week, he warned that he would fight tax hikes or deep cuts in defense spending...