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Schlesinger, whose suggestions conflict with a Senate proposal calling for the replacement of the compromised chancery with a new structure built from scratch. Though the House has not yet voted on the proposal, many Senators remained skeptical toward the Schlesinger plan. Labeling it a "half measure," South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings declared, "The best solution would be just to tear the whole thing down and send the Soviets the bill...
Born in Pittsburgh in 1927, the only child of a steel company purchasing agent and a schoolteacher mother, Bork originally intended to follow in Ernest Hemingway's footsteps by working for newspapers and then writing fiction. A poet-professor at the University of Chicago steered him to the law. At Chicago's law school, free-market economists like Aaron Director inspired his transition from liberal to conservative...
...patrol platoon. He was "tough but fair," says Herrod, and always a stickler for safety regulations. He insisted, for example, that his men buckle their helmet chin straps, when most soldiers let them dangle free. In combat, North's first instinct was to attack, not hit the dirt. Ernest Tuten, who served under North for five months, says, "He had a philosophy that the best way to survive was to minimize your exposure to hostile fire, and the best way to do that was to assault the enemy...
...last week Ishtar's ticket sales trailed even the inane Ernest Goes to Camp and were not in the same class as Beverly Hills Cop II ($71.6 million in 16 days) and The Untouchables ($3.3 million in its first two). One consolation: Columbia hopes to recover part of its costs from sales of overseas, cable and videocassette rights...
EXPECTING. Mariel Hemingway, 25, lissome actress (Manhattan, Personal Best, Star 80) and granddaughter of Novelist Ernest Hemingway, and her husband Stephen Crisman, 37, who supervises Sam's Cafe, the couple's fashionable New York City restaurant: their first child; in December...