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...Whitman's life in about 400 pages, Kaplan repeatedly and judiciously quotes his subject's poems, prose, letters and diaries to lend his biography not only authenticity but a Whitmanesque spirit that a historical and strictly narrative book would have lacked. Thus, much of Walt Whitman: A Life is interior, approaching Whitman's experience through his own descriptions...
...national scene. Drew Lewis, 49, a Pennsylvania businessman who was Reagan's personal envoy to the Republican Nation al Committee during the campaign, is being touted for Secretary of Transportation; Manuel Lujan Jr., 52, a little-known New Mexico Republican Congressman, is being discussed for Secretary of the Interior; Raymond Donovan, 50, an even lesser-known New Jersey contractor with a reputation for getting along with blue-collar unionists, is being tapped to become Secretary of Labor...
Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior under Franklin Roosevelt, once got a phone call from the White House, and one of those self-inflated aides began the conversation with, "The President wants you to ..." The experienced curmudgeon quickly interrupted: "Oh, yeah? Then let me talk...
...Sagebrush movement is attempting to wrest control of as much as 400 million acres of the land now owned by the Federal Government. Several states, including Utah, Arizona and Wyoming, have passed resolutions laying claim to their federal land, and Nevada is planning to sue the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to win the rights to the federal land within its boundaries...
...last month, the Voyager 1 spacecraft cast a last backward glance and transmitted this stunning portrait of the ringed giant. The photograph shows a crescent Saturn casting a shadow on its own rings, from the perspective a traveler might get by approaching from the stars, rather than from the interior reaches of the solar system. Re-created bit by electronic bit in computers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and released last week, the shot is so detailed that patches of the planet can be glimpsed through the rings, which are believed to consist of bits of dust...