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...these days. Reese's Pieces, a steady but unspectacular-selling brand of candy, has blossomed into an unexpected summer hit. Sales of the peanut butter-flavored candy shot up 65% in June after the release of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, which is filling movie theaters at a record clip. In the film, E.T., an endearing space creature, is lured out of hiding by a boy who scatters pieces of the candy in his path...
...look and quirky curiosity, even when examining hard news. For example, a rumination on Secretary of State Alexander Haig's resignation was preceded by a report that Haig was on a list of America's best-dressed men. Nancy Reagan's birthday was noted with a clip of her acting in a forgettable 1952 TV show...
Throughout the country, medical charges last year jumped by a record 12.5%, the largest gain for any major consumer item, and are still rising at about the same breathless clip. Says Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker: "We appear to have turned the corner on most of inflation, but health costs have shown very little sign of improvement...
Because of Jubail's extreme remoteness, nearly all manufactured goods are being shipped to the building sites already partially assembled. In the process, the city is becoming a genuinely modular community, a gigantic expanse of clip-together factories and buildings. The 205-bed Al Huwaylat Hospital, provided by the H.B. Zachry Co. of San Antonio, is arriving at the site virtually in kit form and being assembled room by room, each module having been delivered complete, down to the toilet-paper holders in the bathrooms. Even the hospital's prayer room, which has mosque carpets and lighting directed...
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York at Spelman College in Atlanta: "I know only too well how that double burden [of being a black and a woman] can clip the wings of a soaring spirit. For far too many females, home is still-as George Bernard Shaw noted-'the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse'; and far too often, the office or factory is no better for those women who work outside the home. To your special burdens of race and gender are also added the serious problems facing our entire nation...