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Catherine and Joseph Zak were just being sociable: when Donald Gwinnell visited their Long Branch, N.J., home, they served him Scotch. He drove off-and into a head-on collision with Marie Kelly. Seriously injured, Kelly sued Gwinnell. But then Gwinnell joined her in a separate suit against the Zaks, claiming they were responsible for giving him too much booze and permitting him to drive away...
...applause. When Shamir arrived at a Tel Aviv suburb for a rally, he discovered that local party officials had failed to spread the word. The Prime Minister kept a fixed smile, but later he snapped at the organizers, "You should have told me!" Shamir had better luck at a branch of Bank Leumi in Givatayim, where several dozen customers clustered around him. "Tell your clientele," he said to the bank's manager, "that they should not worry about their savings. We will secure them and never touch them...
...tough talk, no declarations that the Soviets are "the focus of evil in the modern world," no boasts that the "march of freedom and democracy ... will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." Enter Reagan the statesman, man of peace and reason, holding out an olive branch to the Kremlin. "I am willing to meet and talk any time," he declared at a White House press conference last week. "The door is open. Every once in a while, we're standing in the doorway, seeing if anyone's coming up the steps...
...leave him in the position of having a major area of his responsibility overhauled outside the Executive Branch...
Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis branch of the N.A.A.C.P., said the day of the court decision was "one of the most depressing" of her life. District Fire Chief Carl Stotts, who brought the original suit, declared that "affirmative action has been thrown right out the window." He was joined in this assessment by many civil rights activists...