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JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season was conceived of and written in the heat of the Nixon years, and the play reflects the peculiar bitter consciousness of that era. It's no accident that all the characters are ex-atheltes, bred on the same Vince Lombardi-type homilies that powered the Palace Guard...
...sponsor the peregrine program hope that the birds will adapt quickly to life in the refuge. The prospects seem promising. Two falcons released a few miles to the north near Barnegat Inlet last summer disappeared during the winter but returned to the Jersey shore this summer. Equally encouraging, birds bred in captivity have mated this year and begun raising families of their...
...While a sales rebound some day was inevitable-car purchase can be postponed, but not forever-the shape as well as the strength of the comeback has caught Detroit off guard. The main reason for the upswing seems to be that buyers are shedding their recession-bred fear of spending. Now that the inflation rate is dropping (see box) and "real" incomes are rising, Americans are reverting to an old habit. As Ford Executive Vice President William Bourke puts it, "They often buy 'as much car' as their budgets allow, and 1976 budgets allow a greater...
Like so many men with boundless power, personality and ego, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an eye for women. Not just any women, but tall, intelligent and impeccably well-bred travelers in his own social circles. He married his patrician cousin Eleanor in 1905, kept his dining tables and drawing rooms decorated with bright young women from Chestnut Hill and Tuxedo Park, and from 1913 until the day he died in 1945 carried on a secret but by now much-publicized affair with Lucy Mercer, a daughter of Maryland gentry and for a time Eleanor's personal secretary...
...bright sounds of spring this year, few are more reassuring to businessmen and election-minded politicians than the persistent jangle of the nation's cash registers. From Maine to Southern California, Americans seem to have shucked their recession-bred caution and set off on a buying binge. The spending spree is swelling sales of almost everything from cars and clothing to houses and appliances, and it has become the biggest single booster behind the rapidly recovering U.S. economy...