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Williams, the daughter of a Northamptonshire builder, came to Wilson's attention after she used information gleaned as a typist at Labor Party headquarters to warn the future P.M. that a group of intraparty enemies was trying to oust him from a key committee. Hired by her grateful beneficiary in 1956, the attractive blonde gradually acquired Wilson's unquestioned confidence-and a power over party matters that made her the terror of his "kitchen-cabinet" Labor cronies. It was hardly a secret that among those on her list of less-favored was Haines, 49, practitioner of an abrasive...
...also damned by his critics as the superdove of the foreign policy Establishment. Warnke's ideology was certainly a problem when he was passed over for the No. 1 posts at State, Defense and the CIA. Last week President Carter finally made the matchup. He nominated Warnke (pronounced Warn-key) to be both director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and chief negotiator at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union...
...sleeping close to the ground, where the air is richer." (Beware, apartment dwellers.) Like Socrates, he wandered across the land expounding his simple rules of living. He listens to the birds, and "smartest animals on earth, except for the cats," who tell him of warm places to sleep, and warn him against unfriendly building superintendants, landlords, etc. Through the years, Bob developed a symbiosis with nature. It has now reached the point where he has no trouble getting money for food or wine. "Once somebody insulted me when I asked him for change. Next day, the pope died," he pointed...
This place cannot be run intuitively. I would warn about the problem of civilian control, with appointees moving in 18 months before getting up to speed on the job. This place works; it runs. It will run with you or without...
...models range from $25 to $45 and are dropping fast among the 80 to 100 rival brand-name distributors. Smoke detectors work either through photo-electric cells or an ionization device,? but fire officials generally agree that there is minimal difference in effectiveness between the two. They also warn that the occupants' chances of escape from a burning dwelling rest ultimately on a prearranged exit plan well understood by all family members...