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...initial cabinet appointees included so many members of the school's faculty that Dean Graham T. Allison '62 was forced to ask the governor to look elsewhere for employees. Dukakis now employs so many Kennedy School graduates in his administration that he "teases about being the employer of last resort," says Allison...
Most small-craft pilots shun the "birdcages" around major airports whenever possible. William Kramer had no such choice: he took off from Torrance Municipal Airport, just ten miles from LAX, and was heading across the city toward Big Bear Lake, a resort area some 90 miles to the east. Kramer, who had moved from Spokane to the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula early this year, had been licensed to fly for six years but had logged only 231 hours in the air, most of them in Washington's relatively uncrowded skies. On the fateful Sunday morning, Kramer reportedly bought...
...trying to maintain our self-respect and a degree of dignity (all honor & pride have gone by the way), trying to get through this most difficult of times with our sanity intact and see what we can do to maintain a livelihood so that we need not resort to public assistance or dependence on our children. At Ernie's age, it will be difficult to find work; his knees are worn out, too; but his Social Security of $296 monthly will help. I was able to get work at a nearby hospital at $4.10 hourly as a ward clerk -- completely...
...Italian seaside resort city of Rimini, 600,000 youths, sporting San Diego Chargers T shirts, designer jeans and plain work clothes, poured down Via della Fiera. Another tide of the summer fun-and-sun set heading for a beach party? Not quite. They were on their way to the ultramodern auditorium in the new fairgrounds for Mass and then perhaps to a seminar on human rights in Eastern Europe or a lecture by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, on God and the mass media. And if in the midst of all this high seriousness the kids seemed...
...keep food on the shelves." In Managua, pro-Sandinista Columnist Jose Lopez Callejas decried putting a "piece of Miami, Monaco or Switzerland" on land "consecrated by the blood of our heroes and martyrs." The Sandinistas responded to the criticism by imposing a blackout on all new information about the resort...