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...Treasury, the administration has not yet recovered from the crippling embarassment of Barbara Honegger's resignation from her post as Special Adviser on Women's Issues. The attitude of the White House towards Honegger was adequately summed up in Larry Speakes' reference to her as a "Munchkin" whose only function was to give children Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn--a function which Speakes was apparently not aware that Second Lady Barbara Bush has fulfilled in recent years...
...last, by the terrible light that burst over Hiroshima. The end of World War II was the beginning of the unthinkable. The Bomb became the black presiding presence in the world: in the logic of arms race and nuclear deterrence, the wild id of the world was made to function as superego; the very terror of the thing enforced constraint. Evil will make us be good. The world lived with it, the alternative being the threat of planetary death. The image of such global cessation was arresting. So the unthinkable came to be not only thinkable but endlessly and eloquently...
...with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation is but one function of marriage, that love activity benefits husband and wife mentally and physically, that wives should be as forward in the play as husbands...
...firm in 1977, he ordered six Honeywell computers. The first one was delivered to his Rochester headquarters in the spring of 1978, but, says Selden, "it was two months late and dead on arrival." He spent two years trying to get the balky operating system of the computer to function while his infant firm ran up losses that totaled $1.2 million. Selden was forced to liquidate his business and sell the 200-year-old family farm to pay his debts. He is suing Honeywell for $6.4 million for "fraud, negligence and breach of contract." The trial began last week...
...clear yesterday what Jones' function as affiliate would be Herlihy said Jones' participation in House life would depend on his schedule...