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Manufacturers are fine-tuning prices to help meet the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standard of 19 m.p.g. for each company's entire line of cars in model year '79. The trick is to sell enough of the mini and subcompact models, averaging 28 to 30 m.p.g., to offset the heavier cars that get only 11 or 12 m.p.g...
...some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...
...gossip column, you protest. This is Ear. And you don't read it to nose into the lives of D. C. superstars. It's not the talk of Joe Califano and his rooster pepper sausage, or the Rafshooning of America, or the latest a' deux in that little Georgetown cafe that makes the Washington Star's Ear so popular. It's the style, the "jolly pariah" attitude as Ear's creator Diana McLellan describes herself, the fast-paced staccato prose and irreverent wit that draws Ear's following...
...months during World War II. The mother is Anne Jackson, Wallach's real-life wife, and the Frank daughters are played by Wallachs as well. "You're comfortable with your own family, so it's easier," says Katherine, 20, who hopes for a career as a cafe chanteuse and plays Margot. "But there are cons. Your mother is always making sure you had lunch," adds Roberta, 23, a veteran of eight years on stage and screen, who plays Anne. How do the senior Wallachs feel about the experience? "You're supercritical. It's like teaching...
...singing the blues last week for Mabel Mercer or Alberta Hunter. The two were delighted with their portraits in "A Song I Can See: Great Women in Jazz," an exhibition of photographs by Barbara Bordnick at The Space gallery in Manhattan. Mercer, 78, still croons in cafes and listens to her old discs, though "only for correction. Never for pleasure." Hunter, 83, is back on the cafe circuit after having given up music 20 years ago to don a nurse's uniform. On Dec. 3, she takes on Washington at a Kennedy Center gala, and she knows her program...