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...Rose Bowl parade and the Ziegfeld Follies. But what, after all, could be more American than that? Show biz, not solemnity, is an American hallmark; taste is not guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. President Reagan's aides were concerned that their man would be demeaned by the Busby Berkeley choreography. Others joked about his pressing the game-show-size button to flash a laser beam that lighted the Lady. A malfunction, and there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they...
...many companies can reap handsome profits by giving away everything they produce. But in the newspaper business, an enterprising group of publishers is doing just that. By relying solely on advertising revenues, their papers prosper without charging readers a cent. From the suburban Boston Tab (circ. 150,000) to Berkeley's East Bay Express (circ. 45,000), free newspapers, most of them weeklies, are finding lucrative editorial niches and providing a sprightly alternative to established dailies...
...thousand on newsstands every week for 25 cents, leaves foreign policy and national affairs to the prestigious Boston Globe. Says Tab Editor Russel Pergament: "The key to our success is that we're relentlessly local." In most cases, free-paper editors carefully tailor their stories to readers' tastes. Berkeley's East Bay Express, which operates out of the former headquarters of the Black Panthers, caters to young urban professionals. One recent story: a 9,000-word investigative piece on a community opera group...
Clinton described Hufton, who has been avisiting professor at Stanford University and theUniversity of California at Berkeley, as "aleading figure in 18th century European history,and well known for her work on women...
Epidemiologist Warren Winkelstein of the University of California, Berkeley, offered some slight encouragement, suggesting that public education campaigns have slowed the spread of the infection. While the number of AIDS cases is still increasing among homosexual men in San Francisco, he said, the rate of new infections declined from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about a 4% rise last year. Winkelstein attributes the drop to "safe sex" practices like using condoms. Similar declines have been recorded among gay men and intravenous drug users in Baltimore. Said Dr. Frank Polk of the Johns Hopkins School...