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...drank. But if pills, liquor and drugs vanquished inhibitions, they also led to paranoia. "If I smoked a joint and went into a restaurant where people were laughing," she explains, "you could not convince me that they were not laughing at me. The lady in the corner holding the compact was looking at me over her shoulder." A year ago, her throat raw from marijuana, she decided to stop using all drugs. Now she avoids even aspirin...
...only time she really relaxes is when she is alone with her family. It consists of two sons-Rajiv, 30, an Indian Airlines commander who is married to an Italian and has two children, and Sanjay, 28, also married and an industrialist who has designed and produced an Indian compact car named "Maruti" (Tempest). Both Rajiv and Sanjay are products of Indira's marriage to Parsi Lawyer Feroze Gandni>, who died...
...water table lowers, the clay covering over the caverns becomes more compact and weaker; sometimes it collapses completely, creating gaping craters known as sinkholes. In one Birmingham industrial park, more than 200 such collapses have occurred in recent years, turning a half-sq.-mi. area into a facsimile of the lunar landscape. No end to the problem appears to be at hand. As the New York Academy's journal, The Sciences, points out, "With man's seemingly unquenchable thirst for Earth's fluids, the land will continue to sink...
...Monolith. Success sits easily on Caro. Few living sculptors have achieved more of it. At 51, a twinkling, compact man with a boxer's fleshy nose and a pepper-and-salt beard, he is by general consent the best sculptor to have emerged from England since Henry Moore. One powerful wing of American Establishment taste-the Greenberg circle, which includes such critics as Michael Fried and curators like Boston's Kenworth Moffett and MOMA'S Rubin-is disposed to think of him as the most important sculptor alive: the sole inheritor to David Smith. This has been...
...sales upturn. Officials at other auto firms fault Chrysler for having tried to match GM in sheer model proliferation in the 1960s, but then being slow to meet the growing small-car market. With the Valiant and the popular Dodge Dart, Chrysler today has the largest share (32%) of compact-car sales, but its biggest product investment last year was in a costly redesign of its full-sized cars. Its one subcompact, the Dodge Colt, is built by Japan's Mitsubishi, and has not caught on especially well with U.S. buyers. Chrysler does plan to introduce three new compacts...