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Other panelists participating in the forum were House Majority Leader Rep. James Wright (D-Tex) and two journalists from opposite sides of the political spectrum National Review Publisher William A Rusher and New York Times Assistant Editor Tom Wicker...
...While Wicker and Wright conceded that Reagan had at least attempted to accomplish the policies he promised in his campaign they questioned whether these efforts represented the right approach to solving the country economic problems...
...make the man, interior decoration can sometimes be a vivid expression of the soul of a society. American Decorative Arts by Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz (Abrams; 405 pages; $65) forages through the American experience as expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated with...
...Wicker of the New York Times forecast that concern over Administration designs on Social Security would drive many Republican-leaning elderly voters into the Democratic camp. And David Broder of the Washington Post performed an uncharacteristic double swerve: after ruminating two weeks before the election about "a landslide that may never land," he trumpeted six days before the voting that Democrats were "in striking range of control of the Senate." He then backed off four days later and guessed, correctly, that a standoff was the probable Senate result. As a group the commentators were like generals fighting the previous...
...Wicker Park Elementary School. The money has been used to set up highly popular courses in cooking, darkroom techniques and computer science. The Los Angeles Dodgers have adopted the Solano Avenue Elementary School near the stadium, sending in such stars as Second Baseman Steve Sax and Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela to talk about developing good habits. Says Dodger Coach Mark Cresse: "You know how kids are. Their parents can tell them 100 times that they should study, and it goes in one ear and out the other. If a Dodger tells them, believe me, they listen...