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...falling inflation stretched the buying power of the dollar. Retail business was up a strong 1.5% in May, after increasing .7% in April. Shoppers are spending, in particular on clothing and entertainment-oriented electronics products like video recorders and video games. Says Avery A. Haak, corporate economist for Dayton Hudson Corp. of Minneapolis, the seventh largest U.S. retailer: "I see some evidence that the consumer is spending more freely." Adds Richard D. McRae Jr., executive vice president of the twelve-store McRae's department-store chain based in Jackson, Miss.: "We have seen a big improvement in sales...
...videotape of the shootings outside the Washington Hilton Hotel and questioned witnesses of the attack, including two of the victims, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. The prosecution also showed a startling ABC videotape of President Jimmy Carter campaigning in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 2,1980. While Carter shook hands in a crowd, Hinckley's face appeared, bobbing up and down, in and out of focus, only six feet away from the President. A week later Hinckley was arrested at the Nashville airport for carrying three handguns; Carter was then in town...
...enough to be industrial, southern enough to have a gently rural aspect, western enough to have once been on the frontier, eastern enough to have a past." He came-up with Hamilton, "a city, a self-contained town, a suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew, but his selection begs the question of the value of conveniently...
...Dayton offers time to think and explore and enjoy oneself in the process...
...generation gap becomes unbridgeable when the White Animals start playing serious rock in another part of the club. The White Animals are Mimi's favorite band, and she had them flown in from Nashville for the occasion. She and her escort, Dayton Macatee, 23, are dancing up a storm. That Mimi and Dayton get along so well is no surprise; they're both well-bred, well-off young Texans. Keep in mind, though, that Mimi had nothing to do with the selection of Dayton as her escort. In feudal fashion, Idlewild made the match, based on criteria known...