Word: crackerjacks
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...says. At a safe distance, he even likes the loving mobs. On a damp evening last week in Rochester, he showed up to speak at a Xerox-sponsored lecture series that has drawn crowds of a few hundred. More than 3,000 came out to see Iacocca. After the crackerjack 45-minute lecture, they gave him a standing ovation. Later that night, stretched out on the plane back to Detroit, he was still impressed by all those fans who had paid to hear him speak. "Five and eight dollars a head," he mused. "And they didn't even...
...remarkable that the Administration has been put on the defensive about an economic issue: by most measures the economy is in crackerjack shape. Even as Mondale was exploiting the deficit issue, Wall Street was trading and taking profits with pent-up gusto: 754.5 million shares were sold last week, a record. Both the Administration and the Congressional Budget Office issued somewhat cheerier economic estimates for 1984 and beyond. But the federal budget shortfalls continue to mar the Reagan record: the nonpartisan CBO predicted that without further budget cuts or tax increases, the deficits will continue to grow, almost doubling...
...goofy title) will be a summer smash. Of course this new adventure, second in the series that Executive Producer Lucas and Director Spielberg began with Raiders of the Lost Ark, will provide sophisticated, if largely familiar pleasures to a few hundred million moviegoers. Of course Temple of Doom, a crackerjack swash of voodoo and derring-do, will create demand for another sequel...
...says that much of Sullivan's world renown rests on a clearly constructed base of publicity and exposure. Every high-fashion magazine ad, "has Connie Sullivan in it," Dod says. "She's a smart business woman, a crackerjack...
...recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from South Boston to the other up of America in The Patagonian Express. Calm and without the intensity of Kerouac, both books afford homebodies a glimpse of the world away from the crackerjack, automatic world of T.V. sets and interest rates...