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...seemingly inevitable end for a politician whose life had gone badly awry. Richmond's woes had been attracting tabloid headlines for years. In 1978 he was arrested in Washington for sexually soliciting a 16-year-old delivery boy. In spite of that, he handily won re-election that year and again in 1980. Last January, however, the Justice Department, acting on a federal civil suit that revealed financial improprieties with the Walco National Corp. of New York, which Richmond controlled, began an investigation of the Congressman. Last week Rich mond, 58, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, possessing marijuana cigarettes...
...reality, lower-calorie beer boils down to less brew for the money. Not only do most light brands carry premium-brand prices, they contain less grain and more water. In spite of the dilution, such beers are not all that much lower in calorie content than normal beers. Observes newspaper Beer Columnist Steve Byers of the Milwaukee Journal: "The calorie difference between a light beer and a premium beer is five potato chips. Why get a worse taste and flat beer for five potato chips...
...Administration displays awareness of this "pool of patience" in its very arrogance: Stockman is still in office despite his iconoclastic admissions, so is Raymond Donovan, in the face of continuing allegations of gangland associations: and so are William Casey and William French Smith, in spite of disclosure of their financial mixdealings. And there is no sign that James Watt is on the way out, despite the furor over his letter to Israeli Ambassaror Moshe Areins which somewhat to blackmail American Jews into supporting his slash and burn land use policies Reagan seems confident that his adoring fans will forgive members...
...spite of its leadership in the exploration of the solar system, however, J.P.L.'s future has seemed cloudy lately. Almost immediately after the Reagan Administration took office, it canceled a joint effort with the Europeans to survey the sun's unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed...
...Kennedy assassination to philosophical reflections on the news business makes for a rather tame climax. But a book about this unique career in TV news would not be complete without some explanation of why a man would refuse the salary and glamor of the network anchor chair. And in spite of the plodding conclusion. MacNeil's book remains on balance a lively and informative work...