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...Salyut was durable and highly innovative in design. Among its technological features were two docking ports (to receive visiting spacecraft, including a new class of fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
...week, a consensus was beginning to form around a multi-year reduction in personal income taxes, perhaps even as sweeping as the "5-10-10" proposal Secretary Regan was pushing. Any deal would probably also include changes in the inheritance tax to benefit farmers, faster depreciation write-offs for business, reduction of the maximum tax on unearned income from 70% to 50%, and an increased exclusion for dividend and interest income. The Republicans agreed to alter the personal income tax cuts to give greater relief to middle-income Americans. Explained Wright: "The President, in order to protect his own image...
Jockey Philip Nore, the narrator and protagonist of Reflex, is the most multi-faceted Franciscan hero to date. Though he is passionately devoted to his way of life, the spills and the thrills, he has become increasingly disillusioned with the cheating and corruption he perceives at all levels of the racing world. Nore is a lonely man, with a badly shriveled ego that even his occasional racetrack triumphs cannot plump out. He appears to have no real sense of his own identity...
Arriving in buses from cities across the country, the demonstrators sang, chanted and waved multi-colored banners as they listened to speakers denounce American invetervention abroad and the injustices of capitalism at home...
Most actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion...