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...himself "the world's best fat-man water skier." He has padded around the Governor's mansion in bunny pajamas. He drives a Corvette and a pick-up truck and, while Governor, has been ticketed for speeding on his Yamaha 1100 motorcycle. He presides over an annual birthday "sock hop" in a greaser's T shirt. But most of Janklow's constituents look beyond the quirks. Admits Frankenfeld: "He's given South Dakotans a sense of pride in their state they haven't felt before." -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Sioux Falls
Last week, just before the bull market's first birthday, Citibank threatened to spoil the party. It raised its prime rate from 10½% to 11%. Other banks followed, and stock prices sank as they almost always do when higher interest rates loom. By week's end they had begun a modest rebound, but investors remained nervous. Even so, nothing could change the fact that it had been quite a ride-and, despite the inevitable "corrections," it might have a lot more mileage...
...concern to women's groups, he said, "It's a shocking fact that over half of all women who receive child support orders receive less than what they're due." Faced with inevitable congressional passage of a bill to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday, Reagan swallowed his longstanding objections that this would open the door to many other groups seeking similar holidays and decided that he would support the measure...
...morning belonged to her enthusiastic admirers. They sent her bouquets of flowers, along with 3,000 cards and presents, and when she appeared at 11 a.m. on the garden balcony of her residence, Clarence House, 2,000 of them, right on cue, broke into a joyous chorus of Happy Birthday...
...Cassin Young You don't have to go to Latin America to see this 40 year old destroyer. Birthday party for the ship complete with cake, ship tours, and a Navy Band, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Charlestown Navy Yard...