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...runners on second and third, so Linehan strikes out Pete Rodia, the Brandeis cleanup hitter, and the inning should be over with the Judges still scoreless. No such luck...
...Grant store in Jamaica, Queens, a borough of New York City, is typical. In one day last week, hundreds of customers picked over stacks of bedspreads, curtains and fabrics, overturning racks and pulling merchandise from display windows. Litter left behind keeps a night cleanup crew busy. "We can't control it," says Manager Bill Gebbart. "It's a disaster." But not for sales. Normally, the store rang up $5,000 in business during a typical day; now, says Gebbart, it is doing ten times that...
...like the idea of a hormonal cycle that enables me to predict when I'm going to feel down. Think of the advantage to a President: summit meetings could be scheduled only on the up days. Down days could be reserved for the CIA cleanup...
...cleanup in Rome was only the latest example of the imposing organization and vaunted efficiency of the P.C.I. (Italian Communist Party). More important, it was another indication of the Communists' political savvy as they continue to move, under Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, slowly but relentlessly toward the heralded "historic compromise"-an alliance with the Christian Democrats that would bring them into a broad coalition government. "The people know that we are a force that acts and accomplishes," one Communist official boasted after the garbage pickup. "They know the situation in the country is only getting worse, that time...
...rainy season annually cause millions of dollars in property losses; equally damaging fires break out regularly during dry months. Poverty is rampant, with its attendant ills of malnutrition, disease, crime, urban decay and omnipresent filth. Imelda's first order as manager last week was to order a cleanup of the city, in preparation for President Gerald Ford's state visit in December. How well she can cope with the city's problems may help determine her political future in a country where elections have been suspended. "In any case," observed a high government official last week...