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...million authorized copies of classified documents. That, of course, does not take into account the photocopier. "The Xerox machine is one of the biggest threats to national security ever devised," says retired Admiral Thomas Moorer. "Even if documents are numbered and accounted for, it is easy to slip one out over lunch and copy it quickly...
...became the first American jockey to win the fabled Epsom Derby in 65 years. Before a crowd of near ly 300,000 that included his father and Queen Elizabeth II, Cauthen led from start to finish over the mile-and-a-half course on three-year-old Slip Anchor, thereby becoming the sole rider to win both the Epsom and the Kentucky derbies. Ahead by 15 lengths at the final turn, "I couldn't believe my eyes," the 118-lb., 5-ft. 5-in. Cauthen recalled later. "I couldn't see the others, but Slip Anchor wasn't going flat...
...gravity of Castro's reaction. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department are continuing to process the excludables, as well as would-be Cuban immigrants. Said one State Department official: "With every day that goes by without additional reaction, the chances are better for things to slip back to where they were." President Reagan, who personally gave the go-ahead for the station May 18, seemed unperturbed by Cuba's response. On Monday, he was due in Miami at a fund raiser for Republican Senator Paula Hawkins, one of Radio Marti's most vociferous advocates...
More likely, happiness is going from movie to movie or, better yet, staying home to slip those little dream sandwiches into the VCR. Thomson plays to this explosion in film culture in much the way that Jorge Luis Borges ingratiates bibliophiles by writing fantasies about books. One good unreality deserves another...
Sweat-suited and sneaker-footed, with pedometers clipped firmly at waists, they appear, sometimes before dawn, and slip quietly through the shopping-mall entrance with a wave to smiling guards. Early-bird bargain hunters? Well, no. These are not sales stalkers but a growing breed of fitness faddists, the mall walkers...