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...younger Reagan's troubles began in March, when he telephoned several military installations-including Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, which supervises the maintenance of the President's plane, Air Force One-asking how to get on the "approved" list of contractors. He followed up the call with a letter that said in its second paragraph...
...ranks of the British Secret Service to head it between 1973 and 1978, and who was believed to be the inspiration for both "M," the intelligence chief in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, and George Smiley, the deceptively bland hero of John le Carré thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; of cancer; in London. In 1979 Oldfield emerged from a brief retirement to head an antiterrorist security force in Northern Ireland following the assassination of Earl Mountbatten by the Provisional I.R.A...
...order to maintain "balanced" sex-ratios in each of the 13 Houses, officials will "tinker" with the otherwise random process by establishing minimum and maximum quotas of men and women for each House, Susan A. Neer, the College's housing officer, said yesterday...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Mary Tyler Moore, 43, superb TV comedienne who shone when she branched out to Broadway (Whose Life Is It Anyway?) and Hollywood (Ordinary People); and Grant Tinker, 54, TV producer and co-founder with Moore of MTM Enterprises; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...core band records basic all-purpose instrumentals (and on this album the music is really basic--one chord rhythms, no choruses, bridges, passages) and then later on lyrics and perhaps a solo instrument are dubbed in. Too bad that Eno couldn't leave well enough alone and had to tinker with the sound more. On "Houses in Motion" he makes a guitar sound like an Arab calling the faithful to pray: a nice trick but an unnecessary diversion. At least four recording processes and locations along with a cast of thousands are listed on the credits, in fact...