Word: warners
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Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...
...former National Lampoon Editor Tony Hendra, along with a coterie of co-editors, mostly recent graduates of the University of Chicago, Off the Wall Street Journal will go on sale April 1 with an initial press run of 500,000 copies. The 24-page broadsheet will be distributed by Warner Publisher Services to newsstands in 75 cities and to retail outlets including the 780-store Waldenbooks and 600-store B. Dalton chains...
...London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening's end were dancing cheek to cheek. Taylor and Senator John Warner, 55, separated in December, and Burton and his wife Susan parted last year. But the seven-time-married Taylor and the four-time-married Burton scotched notions that another wedding might be in the offing. Said Burton: "We love each other with a passion so furious that we burn each...
...dramatic faculty-about-face? Though some professors who continued to oppose the new plan based their cases on philosophical arguments, the move flexible nature of the updated policy seems responsible for last month's warner reception. That suggests that affirmative action proponents on the Review learned tactical lessons from their earlier bouts with professors and fellow staffers...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle ∙ Happy to Be Here, Garrison Keillor Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner...