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...with chartered jets for long trips. His desire to send his daughter Amy to a public school in Washington was well received by the largely black population of the capital. But his insistence on carrying his own luggage caused the Washington Star's society columnist, Betty Beale, to carp last week that "if the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop, they could have found one without all that concern about issues, debates, etc." When Carter said he would like to walk to the White House for a meeting with Gerald Ford, the President...
...support his theory, while adroitly skipping materials that may cause complications. He does not mention the legends of the lost continent Atlantis, that must surely be germane to speculation about the origins of fish gods. Even allowing for primitive artistic stylization, it is troubling that fish-god portraits resemble carp far more than dolphins...
Outlandishly successful pop novelists rarely take the money and run. Against all the nudgings of reason, they insist on plunging once more. The critical risk is great, of course-reviewers and remaindered colleagues are poised to carp. Yet the built-in publicity is there waiting for them, and with it, perhaps, the long-suffering reader...
...rivers by drainage from junked electrical equipment. In few places were PCB levels higher than in the Hudson, where GE's two capacitor plants had been dumping them at the rate of about 30 lbs. per day since the early 1950s. In tests conducted last summer, striped bass, carp and other fish species were found to contain many times the allowed federal limit of 5 parts of PCBs per million. One eel was found to have 559.25 parts per million of the chemical-an amount so high that an adult who ate a 7 oz. portion would...
...doubles teams had much more success than the singles teams. Team captain Lissa Muscatine and Denise Thal, the fourth-seeded team, reached the semi-finals, where they were knocked off by the first-seeded team of Terry Carp and Lynn McLanahan of Princeton, 6-2, 7-5. Carp and McLanahan won the doubles tournament, downing Yale's Cynthia Hayden and Anne Seidler...