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Watt will be a strong adversary, and even his harshest detractors consider him incorruptible. But if he is to have a chance of succeeding, Watt must build wider coalitions, reach out beyond his own supporters. His intensity is both his strength and his vulnerability. He feels he has plenty of backing. "I know the power flow," he says cockily of the Republican margin in the Senate. But what if in the process of carrying out his part of the new mandate, he misjudges the flow and gets too far out in front of Ronald Reagan? In that case Watt himself...
...controversial branch of medicine, clinical ecology. Specialists in the field, founded by Chicago Allergist Theron Randolph, 74, theorize that some people are especially sensitive to man-made chemicals in the environment, and suffer allergic-type reactions. Says Randolph: "These individuals rapidly become susceptible to a wider range of materials. Sooner or later, in the worst cases, they are disabled by these reactions." What makes Rossall and others suddenly vulnerable is a mystery, although age may be a factor. Says Robert Stroud, the allergist supervising her treatment: "The body's machinery starts to get sticky as we grow older...
...Szczecin and Jastrzebie. Among them were pledges to increase Solidarity's access to the press, free political prisoners and reduce censorship. As Union Leader Lech Walesa put it to a throng of followers last week: "Let's not fight for local goals. Let's fight for wider goals. We will not go back one step...
...things than work-not necessarily a realistic idea or even a meritorious one-provides the green light at the end of the pier. Says Albus: "The robot revolution will free human beings from the pressures of urbanization and allow them to choose their own life-styles from a much wider variety of possibilities...
Smiling coyly at the camera as she hunkers down on the floor and spreads her denim-clad legs wider than a 21-in. television screen, the teen-age temptress murmurs huskily, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Then Photographer Richard Avedon's lens zooms in to linger on Actress-Model Brooke Shields' taut jeans...