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...summer weekends, Jim Rouse and his second wife, Patti, a former commissioner of housing and development in Norfolk, Va., often board their 30-ft. cabin cruiser Adequate and head for a small island he owns on the Miles River. But Rouse is not about to retire to his watery fastness. In April he announced a new venture, the Enterprise Development Corp., owned by a nonprofit organization, the Enterprise Foundation. The most ambitious Enterprise enterprise to date is a $13.5 million program to spruce up Norfolk's dreary waterfront. The project, about half the size of Harborplace, will employ much...
Swing. Splash. Surprise. No one was more surprised than First Lady Nancy Reagan, 59, at the successful christening of the 560-ft. guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Ticonderoga at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Said she: "All I could think of was 'Lord, I am going to go down in history with Mrs. Truman!' " First Lady Bess Truman had struck out when she tried to crack a champagne bottle against the nose of the C-54 U.S. Capitol in 1945. Though that plane got no kicks from champagne, this ship did. Nancy, a righty (natch), uncorked a swing...
...tour of Cabrini-Green, a violence-torn public housing project on Chicago's Near North Side, Mayor Jane Byrne noticed a 16-year-old girl sitting in a police cruiser. The mayor asked what the youngster was doing there. She had just been raped, was the answer. The mayor returned home and a few hours later announced that she and her husband Jay McMullen would move into a two-bedroom apartment at Cabrini-Green. Said Byrne: "I asked myself what the difference was between this and other neighborhoods. In most, they get the troublemakers out. That is what...
...Navy also will get an extra cruiser (cost: at least $840 million), two more antisubmarine and antiaircraft frigates (cost: at least $490 million), one more nuclear-powered submarine (cost: about $1 billion) and a long-awaited start on a new nuclear-powered Nimitz-class carrier. That ship, which may cost $4 billion or more, is not expected to go to sea before...
...partnership paid off. Since late 1979 nearly 100,000 copies of nine different versions of VisiCalc have been ordered at prices ranging from $100 to $300. It is far ahead of other business programs like Data Factory and General Ledger, and even outsells the programs for Star Cruiser, Dogfight and other arcadelike computer games...