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...country's only hedgehog clinic, St. Tiggywinkle's. Named for the hedgehog washerwoman of Beatrix Potter nursery-tale fame, the hospital is equipped to deal with every affliction, from broken bones to deflated spines. St. Tiggywinkle's wards house 150 to 200 prickly patients. Nearly all are auto casualties, though some are victims of dog or cat attacks, and one was admitted after being mauled by a rhinoceros during a careless stroll through...
...deaths. After three years of treatment, that fraction dropped to less than half. "This is the largest decrease in coronary disease seen in any trial," said Heikki Frick, a University of Helsinki scientist who took over the study in 1986 after its originator, Cardiologist Esko Nikkila, died in an auto accident...
Anxiety was especially high in Detroit, where automakers feared the crash could deal a new blow to car sales, which are already slumping. Maryann Keller, a prominent auto analyst with Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney, a Manhattan-based investment firm, predicted that U.S. sales of cars and trucks would fall about 15% next year, to 9.5 million vehicles. One reason for her gloomy forecast, she said, was that the loss of wealth caused by the stock- market decline would have a "significant effect on consumer confidence and the ability to spend...
...sell-off. Depressed market conditions forced the Premier to postpone the sale of the government's majority share of the defense and electronics group Matra, a $23.5 million enterprise. Meanwhile, the West German government appeared poised to put off the sale of its remaining 16% stake in auto giant Volkswagen (1986 revenues: $29.3 billion), despite earlier pledges of a sale this year...
...later magazine pieces about Southern stock-car racing, California auto customizers, Manhattan's Pop art world, funky fashions and the navel engagements of the self-awareness movement confirmed Wolfe's originality. Unlike the reigning intellectuals of the day, he took American mass culture at face value, though not with a straight face. His New Journalism combined the skills and stamina of an ace reporter with the techniques of fiction, and it reached its peak in The Right Stuff, the 1979 recounting of the lives and times of the Mercury astronauts...