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...people seeking jobs down South. Perhaps the only business doing better than placement agencies is the moving trade. United Van Lines transported 533 households from Michigan to Texas in 1980, up from 293 the year before. UHaul's one-way southbound traffic in rental trucks has been so brisk that it creates chronic shortages up North...
Profits from the souvenir trade are expected to top $438 million by July. Insurance companies are also doing a brisk business, agreeing to underwrite more than $33 million in policies covering losses that would result from a change in wedding plans. When the estimated 600,000 to 1 million extra visitors arrive for the event, London's hotels, restaurants and tour organizers will have their day. A group called Corporate Capers has already sold 700 places next to windows in the office buildings along the wedding procession route. For $335, a rubbernecker gets use of binoculars...
...Washington last week could hardly have responded more warmly to the U.S. overtures. Britain's Thatcher, the first head of a NATO government to call on Reagan at the White House, was greeted by a huge honor guard arrayed across the South Lawn. Battle streamers snapping in a brisk wind, the Marine Band passed in review, its bearskin-hatted drum major raising a brass baton in salute. Reagan in his welcoming remarks stressed watchfulness: "So long as our adversaries continue to arm themselves at a pace far beyond the needs of defense, so the free world must do whatever...
...year lifting weights, running, doing the most grueling of exercises only to have training compressed into a minute and a half? Those who don't row crew at this school, those who watch their roommates tumble out of bed at 6 a.m. in the middle of winter for a brisk jog, those who can't help detect a rower's inexplicable calm during reading period, ask this question. After all, rowers have their daily workout, their daily dose...
Nearly two decades after its first application, Greece joined the Community's nine members, and its blue-and-white-striped flag began snapping in a brisk Brussels wind. Said Greek Prime Minister George Rallis: "It is the happy conclusion of our journey to Europe, which lasted almost 20 years...