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...Federal grants for major construction projects in 1981 will total $3.3 billion; operating subsidies, $1 billion. The Reagan Administration would like to limit, if not eliminate, this aid. High on the Reagan hit list is funding for any new mass transit projects (usually 80% federal, 20% state), throwing a wrench into planning in Los Angeles and Houston. Construction will proceed on projects already under way-subways in Atlanta and Baltimore, an elevated line in Miami. But some planned extensions are in jeopardy, and transit officials fear that many existing systems will be in trouble without federal help...
...though he were determined to make the return to his roots work out. He will spend a good deal of the time on a book about his presidency and do some hunting and fishing, watch after his farm and timberlands, and stroll the fields. "It will be a tremendous wrench for him," said one of his closest friends. "He has always been a forward-looking man. He will have to fight against dwelling in the past...
Unfortunately for the Black Knights, things weren't so straightforward on the football field. While Cadet coach Ed Cavanaugh attributed the upset loss to a lack of emotional intensity, the Crimson defense clearly took the game to Army, forcing six turnovers and throwing a wrench into Army's heralded Jerryl Bennett-to-Mike Fahenstock passing duet...
...than the nano-nanos of Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak in what he describes as a Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall's role as Olive Oyl was not much easier. "I had shin splints for weeks from those size-14, quintuple-A boots," she groans. Not to mention anvil forearms from toting Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt) around...
Shortly after sunset one day last week, a maintenance worker on the third level of a silo housing a 103-ft. Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile near Damascus, in the Arkansas hills north of Little Rock, dropped the socket of a wrench. The 3-lb. tool plummeted 70 ft. and punctured a fuel tank. As flammable vapors escaped, officials urged the 1,400 people living in a five-mile radius of the silo to flee. The instructions: "Don't take time to close your doors-just...