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...traditional, nor do they follow party lines. Although SET is masterminded by the conservative wing of the Republican Party and has some major business support from the likes of J. Ray Topper, president of Anchor Hocking, and W.R. Timken Jr. of Timken Co., it is also supported by the rank-and-file members of some labor unions. Leading the opposition is John Mahaney, the Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise $2 million to fight the repeal. Explains State...
...soldier's complete record on his plastic microchip dog tag, [July 25], I am appalled at what could happen if a G.I. were captured. The enemy would be able to read the information with his own computer, thereby leaving the soldier unprotected and destroying the doctrine of "name, rank and serial number...
...Palestinians' needs come last even with their friends, Syria and the Soviet Union. With Arafat, the Palestinians rank first 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year...
...beauty: the former based on symmetry and minute gradations of fixed etiquette, the latter on irregularity and "natural" grace. Sen No Rikyu (1521-91), greatest of the tea masters, established chanoyu as a kind of psychic enclave in which warlord, samurai, priest and scholar could shed the burdens of rank and power by refreshing themselves at the well of nature. A developed Japanese form of Rousseau's "natural man," living in harmony with a world he has not made, is to be found in the teahouse and the culture it epitomizes: neutral colors, simple gestures, the uncarved block...
Beverly Hills Lawyer Robert Steinberg purported to have three videotape recordings of "sadomasochistic [sexual] acts" involving Morgan and Bloomingdale, as well as a Congressman, two Reagan-appointed officials of less than Cabinet rank, two businessmen and several other women, all unidentified. Steinberg, who has no official role in the Morgan case but who has a reputation as a frustrated self-promoter, said a woman identifying herself as a friend of Morgan's killer had appeared in his office with some 40 minutes of videotape in a Gucci...