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...farmland, with a marvelous view-on clear days-of Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range. There was a hitch: there were no roads into the area and no bridges. In winter you could walk across the frozen river; in summer you could take a boat. But during the spring breakup and the autumn freeze-up the only way you could cross the Susitna was to hire Bush Pilot Don Sheldon to fly you from Talkeetna on the eastern bank over to Old Homesteader Shorty Bradley's pasture on the western side. The land-office man in Anchorage warned them...
...Enough water has gone under the bridge for it to be a reminder of the wonderful days again, not the hell of the breakup." That is how ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 42, explains his decision to rerecord such vintage Beatle classics as Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby and For No One as part of the sound track for the just released Give My Regards to Broad Street, a musical rock-fantasy feature film that he wrote and produced. But while it's getting better all the time for McCartney, the singer is still irked that he does not own the copyrights...
...Court vigorously enforced the antitrust laws in an effort to break up economic concentration. The Burger Court has backed the Reagan Administration's view that the real antitrust test should not be size but economic efficiency. Some experts think that the Burger Court would not have ordered the breakup of A T & T, which was the result of a settlement in a federal district court...
...looming are sales of British Airways and Rolls-Royce, the enginemaker. The largest privatization move will come in the fall when 51% of British Telecom, the telecommunications monopoly, goes on the block in an anticipated $4 billion selloff. Union members have called the breakup of ownership "an act of economic vandalism," and some engineers staged a brief protest strike...
Halfway through the first chapter of this new novel by the talented poet and novelist Marge Piercy, one wonders what use there is in continuing. Fly Away Home, we can tell from the blurb, will be the intense and anguished story of the breakup of a marriage, and the subsequent discovery by a warm but timid woman that there is a whole world open to her. It is a familiar story; even under Piercy's talented pen--she is known for Woman on the Edge of Time and Braided Lives--what on earth could make it fresh...