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...charged, was the result of quality-control problems. Pershing's contractor is the Martin Marietta Corp., with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. Army officials familiar with the program explained that the most recent test, on July 27, was botched because of improperly placed shims, or washers, in the hot-thrust section of the missile. Glitches that have caused other failures include a faulty hydraulic pump and a misplaced wire that led to a short circuit. Officials of Martin Marietta declined to respond to Wickham's blast...
Most politicians' humor, however, tends to be safe rather than biting. Dole's thrust-and-cut jokes in 1976, when he was the G.O.P. vice-presidential nominee, were said to have alienated voters. Several realms are off-limits: ethnic and racial jokes, anything remotely smutty. While Reagan can repeat punch lines about his age, it would be unseemly for a Democrat to joke about the President's advanced years. Topicality is crucial. For instance, Rollings' allusion to Carter's seven-year-old, lust-in-my-heart Playboy interview (Hollings: "I'm lusting...
...probably a sign of the weakness in current English pop that New Order--formed in the aftermath of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis suicide--has been thrust forward as the band to save British and now American ears from the corrosive influence of fun music. The phenomenon of Joy Division cannot be overestimated; the music on their seminal, but now largely unlistenable, albums Closer and Unknown Pleasures was probably the most depressing ever put to plastic, but it thrilled a European rock elite looking for depth amidst the backlash of post-punk...
What had happened between the two oil shocks was the development of perhaps the world's most coherent and effective energy program. The entire thrust of Japanese energy policy starting in the early 1970s was to make less oil do more. Average annual oil consumption per person in Japan has declined about 20% since 1972. The Japanese pushed conservation by turning off electric lights, trimming back service-station hours, lowering commercial-building temperatures and shutting down escalators. Many other countries, of course, took the same measures, but the Japanese were more successful. Japanese refrigerators now use only about half...
...that the briefing book imbroglio has been thrust into national consciousness, the Reagan Administration can regain its full credibility only by ensuring that investigations go forward. If there is housecleaning to be done, the President has already demonstrated-most recently in the EPA scandal-that he can do it, however reluctantly and unapologetically. He stands by his characterization of the ruckus as "much ado about nothing. " But Reagan has already said what Richard Nixon could never quite bring himself to say about Watergate. Promised Reagan: "If, when the investigation is over and the truth is known, it is necessary...