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...system, is dubious that the technical problems of an air-launch system can be solved in the time available. Texas Senator John Tower, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is expressing his concern around Washington that each air-launched missile could cost $1 billion. He favors a variant of the land-based plan, which actually was begun under Republican Gerald Ford...
...variant entrail-reading suggests that when people break faith with their diets, as they always do sooner or later, they want to do it with a strumpet certifiably and wickedly luxurious. Actually, according to a recent Consumer Reports calculation, a half-cup serving of superpremium vanilla ice cream contains only 267 calories, compared with 363 for a 5-oz. piece of homemade apple pie. A 154-lb. person, nutritionists say, can burn off half a dish in 21.2 min. of moderate skiing, 87.6 min. of golfing or painting furniture, or 188.6 min. of lying down and daydreaming. The difficulty...
...Some variant of this story has been told, filmed and staged many times: Making and Losing It in Tinseltown. Carpenter does not try to extend this formula, but neither does he take it seriously. The plot is chiefly an excuse for the author to insert some of the inside information about Hollywood that he picked up over the twelve years he worked there. He shows how deals are made, who gets the money and how easily a film project can go into turnaround, i.e., fall apart. Luckily, Carpenter's breezy, irreverent story hangs together...
...their part, Administration officials had to worry about being forced to fight for some variant of the Kemp-Roth plan-a threeyear, 30% tax cut-which does not enjoy the support that the budget cuts did in the Congress or the country. In fact, all the major players-Rostenkowski, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese-hoped to settle the issue by consensus...
...attempted murder and 13 of manslaughter, his trial was far from over. Expressing "grave anxiety," the judge, Sir Leslie Boreham, asked the attorney general and chief prosecutor, Sir Michael Havers, to explain "in greater detail than usual" the background of Sutcliffe's "diminished responsibility" plea-a British variant of "temporary insanity." After reports about the defendant's mental state were read, Justice Boreham finally responded: "It would be more appropriate if this case were dealt with by a jury...