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Bing had seen Cowan coming in time to duck under a desk. He and most of the 50 other Neptune employees in the building were able to escape when police arrived. The first cop on the scene, Allen McLeod, 33, was picked off by the Sako rifle from a distance of about 30 ft. Three more policemen responding to the shooting calls were wounded...
...Nicholas has produced most of Mamet's 20 plays, including his recent off-Broadway hits, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Duck Variations. It will also produce his new children's play, Revenge of the Space Pandas, as well as Woods, a celebration of heterosexual love-no longer, he laments, "a hot item on the shelf of American commerce." Mamet has joined in the celebration, though he remains a bachelor and currently lives alone. In his spare moments he is working on the film scenario of Sexual Perversity and a new adaptation of the old Alec Guinness film, Last...
Mondale called Carter twice, on a scrambled phone from a local U.S. embassy. ("You sound like Donald Duck," remarked Carter at the beginning of the first call. "I am Donald Duck," replied Mondale.) He had some progress-and a few problems-to report...
Using the license available to a lame-duck Administration, the Ford CEA report acknowledged a politically touchy and therefore long-ignored reality: "full employment" no longer means a jobless rate of 4%, the level generally accepted in the '50s and early '60s. The Ford report pegs it at 4.9%. Many economists suggest that it should be even higher, perhaps as much...
...fifth have said they favored independence, with an equal number who had never heard of the island. Many Americans do not understand, for example, that Puerto Ricans are American citizens, with full political rights when they live in the States. It is much more serious than a lame duck President's whim, when a majority of Americans seem to believe statehood would be good for the Puerto Ricans and the United States...