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...conflicting, well-known candidates-Gov. Edward J. King, former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and 14, Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III-vie for the Democratic nomination. The Republican spot is sought by five relative unknowns-Westwood businessman John R. Lakian, House minority leader William G. Robinson, assistant House minority whip Andrew H. Card Jr., former Boston city councilor John W. Sears '52 and former Metropolitan District Commissioner Guy Carbone...
...Senate Budget Committee: "There is close to no chance that Reagan's budget will pass. Very few Republicans would vote for it. I know of no one." Fretted Michel: "The overriding consideration is the size of that deficit. It's mind boggling." Added Senate Republican Whip Ted Stevens: "I'm in sort of a state of shock...
...Washington, Lawyer Catherine Stevens, 37, wife of the Senate majority whip, Alaska's Ted Stevens, occasionally uses convenient Secret Service agents as baby sitters for her six-month-old daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something...
...Industrial Recovery Act, and his choice of the man he put in command of it, General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson. A profane and red-faced ex-cavalryman, an admirer of Mussolini and good bourbon, West Pointer Johnson had spent the war years spurring the Selective Service System and applying the whip to the War Industries Board, which supervised the manufacturing and sale of military supplies...
...than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting was suspended as Coppola wooed other investors-and in August, Paramount showed a very rough cut to a group of disappointed exhibitors. Coppola the lion tamer felt caged; it was time to crack the whip and see who jumped...