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...face and gleaming of tooth. Reagan attacked existing governmental medical programs as being wasteful, said that "three out of four Veterans Administration beds are filled with patients suffering diseases or injuries neither originated by, nor aggravated by, military service." He criticized the social security system as a mushrooming monster, and warned that federal aid to education was "the foot in the door to federal control...
...last week sketched the details of what it hopes will be the world's first supersonic commercial transport. Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby, asked by the Kennedy Administration to investigate the feasibility of such a plane, spelled out the desired quality of what he called "the monster." The new plane should cruise at Mach 3 (about 2,000 m.p.h.) at an altitude of 65,000 to 75,000 feet, fly from Los Angeles to New York in 74 minutes, and zip across the North Atlantic in less than two hours...
...Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read the results into the ready ICBMs that form part of the U.S. retaliatory force...
...wife's name to a Moran salesman in the course of looking at a car. "Helen!"' cried the salesman rapturously. "That's the dearest name in all the world to me because that happens to be the name of my wife." "There's the Monster." Moran-whose own wife is Arline-lives in a sprawling, nine-room ranch house in Lincolnwood. a Chicago suburb, with Arline and the three children (two girls, a boy). He has three motorboats. a summer home in the country and a winter home in Florida...
...give em another one.'" Herm made his name in the entertainment world when he wrote and produced the legendary I Was a Teenage Werewolf for American International Pictures. He followed that success with several more--including I was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula, How To Make a Monster, and Horrors of the Black Museum...