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...ambitions were not quite as grand. "Gosh, I'd love to be a mailman," Byrne, 34, sometimes thought as he was growing up. "Read postcards, walk around the neighborhood." If Byrne sent out cards of his own about his career, the messages might go something like this: "Heads bust out -- six of our ten albums go gold"; "Heads albums make the Top 20 (Remain in Light to No. 19, Speaking in Tongues to No. 15)"; "Hi everybody. Gone to Hollywood. Love, David...
...whether the pretzel cone is a boom or a bust, whether or not the dipped cone fever ever fizzles, ice cream will continue to be a hot topic in the Square. "I was choosing between Harvard and Brown," David says. "The only reason I came to Harvard was the ice cream. If it weren't for all the amazing ice cream around here, I would have gone to Brown...
Moscow or Bust...
Part of the reason for these "de-nationalized" races is that no major dilemmas are confronting the U.S. and galvanizing the electorate, no Viet Nam or Watergate, no nationwide economic bust or crisis of confidence. The lack of broad national themes might also explain why many politicians, hungry for hot issues, have exploited the war against drug abuse, farm woes or local concerns...
Times have rarely been harder in Louisiana. The oil bust has devastated the state's most important industry. Cotton is no longer king, nor is sugarcane. The unemployment rate of 12.8% is the second highest in the nation, just behind Mississippi's. Some 80,000 people have left the state since 1983. The Governor, smooth-talking Edwin Edwards, has survived two trials on racketeering and fraud charges, though he did not emerge unscathed. Two state administrators have been jailed on corruption charges, and two others are under indictment. "I am frightened about our future," says Greenwell Springs Resident Joyce Payer...