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...latest entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob...
...this Southern squall is a 242-sq.-mi. area at the tip of the Florida peninsula known as the East Everglades. Like Everglades National Park, just to the west, it is still unspoiled, filled with palmettos and sawgrass, marshes and wildlife. And that is the problem. Eager to escape Florida's crowded, condo-filled coast, the homesteaders have picked one of the state's most ecologically fragile regions, essential to the environmental well-being of all of South Florida...
Trudeau had hoped that his National Energy Program would tip the economic balance away from the provinces by sharply raising federal taxes on existing oil and gas production. Some of the resulting revenues would then be used by the federal government to help finance generous tax breaks for Canadian-controlled energy companies so that they could explore for oil on federally owned frontier lands such as the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The plan would put foreign companies operating in those regions at a severe disadvantage, but it would help shore up a sense of Canadian national identity throughout...
...trying vainly to keep his colleagues in line. But the next morning the Speaker admitted the imminence of defeat, blaming it on "a telephone blitz like this nation has never seen." Afterward, however, the Speaker joined Rostenkowski in phoning the White House. Said the President: "This is most gracious, Tip...
After a stinging series of congressional defeats, the Democrats--especially local Congressman Tip O'Neill--wanted a win. As it turned out, they couldn't manage that, even with their look-alike proposal--Reagan is the man of the hour, and from Tacoma to Tallahassee the home folks were wiring their representatives to let them know they like the look of the president's plan. It wasn't even close, the prevailing winds pointing the fingers of sundry Democratic weathervanes toward the White House...