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DIED. Corinne Griffith, eightyish, star of silent movies (Black Oxen, 1924) and early talkies (Lilies of the Field, 1930); in Santa Monica, Calif. Griffith retired in 1932 to make a fortune in Beverly Hills real estate and to campaign for the repeal of the federal income tax, denying-in print and in divorce court-that she was the same Griffith who once graced the silent screen. "It tends to date one," she sniffed...
Henry Ford's grandson was contemptuous. "Like trying to cure cancer in five years," he grumped. "Brock wants to repeal the laws of thermodynamics," said a man at General Motors. "A peanut butter car," hooted the Wall Street Journal recalling a dream from earlier decades that some day anything-even peanut butter-could be used as fuel. One auto engineer said they already had "a bellows car" powered by Secretaries of Transportation turning a handle that shot hot air out the back...
...rest of the year. Any further fiddling with broad policy now would probably worsen either inflation or recession-or both. Says Greenspan: "If inflation is public enemy No. 1, we would be well served by a do-nothing Congress." Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis urges repeal of many Inflationary federal regulations. "My advice is: 'Don't just stand there, undo something.' " But Heller figures that all the Government can do to head off stagflation is "pray and inveigh...
Second only to SALT among Soviet aims is repeal of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which withholds most-favored-nation status from the U.S.S.R. until Moscow permits free emigration. Lifting the amendment would make the U.S.S.R. eligible for generous credits to pay for American goods and reduce tariffs on Soviet goods shipped to the U.S. The U.S. is clearly considering granting most-favored-nation status to Moscow's nemesis: China...
...movement is also split on ultimate goals. Most gays want only to be allowed to live openly and freely without suffering any penalty from society. But the radical fringe is agitating for the repeal of laws making sexual contact between adult gays and young boys a crime. The idea horrifies many homosexuals, who are well aware of the deep-seated fear among many parents that gays are out to seduce or enthrall straight children, a view homosexual leaders hotly deny...