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Unlike such White House Chiefs of Staff as Richard Nixon's H.R. Haldeman and Jimmy Carter's Hamilton Jordan, Baker will have scant contact with members of the Cabinet or other major Government agencies. That is what Meese will be doing, in addition to helping set overall policy. Baker's job will be restricted to directing the work of the assistants and aides to the President who actually work in the White House or in the neighboring Executive Office Building. Among Baker's duties will be supervising White House press and congressional relations. Like Meese...
...sleepy, friendly and Englishman-pale alongside the beach-sunned office workers, Mark Knopfler, centrifugal force of Dire Straits, and bassist John Illsley are wandering the corridors of Warner Bros. Records in New York. They're on holiday from the making of Making Movies, their third album, recorded in a scant few weeks at Nassau's Compass Point studios. Coffee is thrust into their hands; radio stations phone incessantly, demanding over-the-phone interviews...
Voyager 1, weighing a scant 825 kg (1,820 Ibs.) and drawing its electricity from a compact nuclear power pack, is ideally equipped to answer such questions. One of two identical ships en route to Saturn (its twin will reach it next August), the spacecraft carries eleven instruments, including two television cameras. During Voyager's swing by Jupiter in March 1979, these keen eyes sent back stunning closeups of the planet's turbulent atmosphere, detailed views of its moons and even a spectacular shot of a volcanic eruption on the Jovian satellite...
...This scant literary attention criticism is excuseable, at least with respect to Amy Lowell, since she was a far more interesting person than poet. As D.H. Lawrence commented once to her in a letter, "How much nicer, finer, bigger you are, intrinsically, than your poetry." (Amy stood five foot two and weighed over 250 pounds.) Sole heir to a large portion of the family's original fortune, Amy's comportment, her eccentricities and the scandals which followed her made her one of the most talked-about literary figures...
...edge in registration, and that Carter has reduced Reagan's lead by 20 points since last summer. Moreover, California is a "media state," where late and wide shifts of opinion among voters are possible. Four years ago Carter lost to Jerry Ford by a scant 1.7% of the vote. The Democrats think he would have won if the turnout had been heavier in traditional Democratic areas, so they plan to allot a big chunk of their funds to sign up more voters. They are also relying on a new coalition of unions, teachers and other public employees, black...