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...year-old writer who lives in a one-room cabin overlooking the Pacific. I warmed to her immediately, more spontaneously than I have reacted to anyone in months. The New Republic, lying next to a jar of honey on a checkered table cloth, made me laugh inwardly. But at the same time, I became defensive because this woman had done what I often dream of but will never do: dropped out of a respectable Eastern college. I borrowed her phone--only one family in the valley has one--and called the friend I would rejoin in San Francisco the next...
...India news of Mrs. Gandhi's defeat was received with astonishment and euphoria. "What is happening?" shouted Janata supporters outside a counting station in New Delhi. When told that their candidates were winning decisively, the spectators hugged the messengers of the good news. Said Om Prakash, 26, a cloth merchant: "The election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil...
...boycott has had no perceptible result. Stevens set records for both sales ($1.4 billion) and profits ($41 million) last year. But union leaders say that serious boycott preparations started only in January. One problem they face is that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold to other manufacturers, and the company's own consumer products sell under a bewildering variety of private labels and brand names, including Utica blankets and Gulistan carpets. Some, like Yves Saint Laurent sheets, bear designer names. Nonetheless, ACTWU is printing up thousands of wallet-sized cards listing labels, and plans to take...
...nice to.") In this new world the chief hood (played by a corpulent Eugene Roche) runs a hot vehicles and appliances operation--that is to say, he's a couple of legalities removed from a used car salesman. He has neither taste nor an eye for sharp clothes; his favorite seems to be a terry-cloth jumpsuit. And where the old racketeers had bodyguards with pug noses and club-steak ears, this fellow hires a turtleneck-wearing glamour boy (John Considine) who might just as well be Lyle Waggoner. What's more, these contemporary villains have lost all sense...
...allowed to raise prices. Finally, it seems sure that the program will not relax tough environmental controls on energy use. David Freeman, 51, Schlesinger's senior aide, puts the point in a gloriously mixed metaphor: "We start out with the cornerstone of our energy policy cut from environmental cloth...