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...about convenience, the advent of cat litter is comparable to the invention of the electric light bulb." Litter boxes are now big-selling staples in pet stores. They cost from $2.50 to $34.95. Some of them are kick-proof and odor-proof. The latest behavior-modification device is Kitty Whiz, a potty trainer that purportedly teaches Puss to use the bathroom toilet. Cost...
...Army Air Forces colonel in World War II, he won fame as the inventor of a "statistical control" system to keep track of the military's global resources. In 1946, he and nine Army colleagues moved to the financially ailing Ford Motor Co., where they were nicknamed the Whiz Kids...
...Junior whiz kid Darlene Beckford, who has never lost an individual race on Harvard's indoor track and who holds Harvard's record in the mile, two mile, 440 and 880--will be back to work her old magic. For the first time in two years, Beckford is going into the track season uninjured and healthy, and judging from her stellar 18th place finish in last month's cross-country Nationals, she could be better than ever this year...
...feud between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and National Security Adviser Richard Allen had been "exaggerated out of all reality" and that, to the contrary, "we're a very happy group." Yet, at the end of that same press conference, Reagan learned for the first time that his whiz-kid budget director had brought yet another flap upon the Administration: in an article in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stockman was quoted as saying some most indiscreet things about the Administration's entire approach to budget balancing and tax cutting. Suddenly, the architect of Reaganomics...
That would seem to overstate the case. But enough damage has been done, insist some White House insiders, that the whiz kid will have to wave some new magic wands and make the furor fade away if he is to keep his job. Warned one official: "He's got about a week or maybe two before another decision will have to be made." Predicted another top aide: "He's going to bleed to death." Already there was talk in the White House about finding a replacement for Stockman. That, however, will not be easy. Shaky as those elusive...