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...back on, his dark suit is crisply pressed. Every hair is at parade rest. The unlit but badly mangled cigar is gone. Neat, crisp and controlled, ready to face the public, Walter Mondale is once again in what his aides call his "full Norwegian" mode...
...Marlou Crisp West Kingston...
Prudent parents, even if they were dedicated ski bums during their own college years, may decide that the cold, crisp joy of schussing to bankruptcy is best left to singles with incomes at or above the orthodontist level. Not at all, say the business-oriented swifties who are taking over the management of big ski resorts from the old 10th Mountain Division veterans who founded them. The ski biz needs families to fill all the lifts and hotels it built during the past two decades and to pay the notes on the expensive snowmaking equipment it continues to install...
When children reached into Christmas stockings and ripped open presents last week, thousands of youngsters probably found a thin, crisp gift that represented an investment in their future: a U.S. savings bond. After a four-year slide in popularity, Uncle Sam's bonds are staging a comeback. The Treasury Department reports that sales of the notes totaled $3.9 billion during the past twelve months, up 20% from the previous year...
Heart Like a Wheel. This B-movie biography of Shirley Muldowney, first woman to become a national hot-rod champion, boasts crisp, compassionate direction by Jonathan Kaplan and an Oscar-worthy performance from Bonnie Bedelia...