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Brown's Timothy Bruno threw the 35-lb. weight 59 ft. 5 3/4 in. to win that event, while Harvard's Gary Quantock and Lanny Tron retaliated in the shotput, grabbing the number one and two spots...
...first tested underground in Nevada in 1963, the neutron bomb received its most recent push in 1975 from then Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. He concluded that the threat to use NATO's tactical nukes was losing its credibility and therefore its deterrent power. Schlesinger reasoned that neu tron bombs would constitute a credible deterrent. President Ford approved production funds for two new warheads in the fiscal 1978 budget that is now making its way through Congress. The cost is classified but is estimated to be between $10 million and $20 million. It went almost unnoticed-and unpublicized-until debate...
...minor industry has developed to cater to the millions of people who want to stop smoking cigarettes. Ban-tron, Nikoban and other aids for quitters enjoy brisk sales. "Withdrawal clinics" have sprung up in several cities; they urge people to munch popcorn instead of smoking, emphasize the positive effects of quitting. Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward are among the recent graduates of Sunset Boulevard's "Smoking Control Center," one of several $125 per course habit-breaking outfits that have opened lately in Los Angeles. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley recently mailed circulars urging 36,000 city...
...desire to have something to show for all our money has driven us super-rich to frenzies of collecting things, and you will undoubtedly want to join in. Art has always been our favorite combining high prices, cultural cachet and delicious opportunities to play the pa- tron with penurious young talent. Today, however, it seems to have got completely out of hand, with painters and sculptors apparently unable to turn out even fake works fast enough. Personally, I would leave the modern stuff to the likes of Nelson Rockefeller, who has the Museum of Modern Art at his beck...
Visitor from Hollywood is a case of seductio ad absurdum. It rests on the somewhat shaky premise that a Hollywood producer would set up an afternoon rendezvous with a suburban ma tron he once dated-17 years before-in order to kill an hour in bed. There is more lacquer than lecher in Scott's peacock-of-the-walk performance, but Stapleton is properly kittenish as she downs vodka stingers until she can only feel the bites on her neck...