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...nearly seven years, she could not bend her neck or back: her torso was held rigid from the chin to the pelvis by a cumbersome steel and leather brace. Debra was the victim of scoliosis, or abnormal curvature of the spine. The brace, which she was finally able to discard last year, not only straightened her back but may well have saved her life...
...Europeans, life became a little darker, slower, chillier. Heating-oil prices went up 60% to 100%, and thermostats were turned down. In the midst of a French conservation drive in October, President Valéry Discard d'Estaing found his Elysée Palace dining room so cold that he lunched with Premier Jacques Chirac in the library by a crackling fire. Gasoline rose to $1.40 per gal. in West Germany, $1.72 in Italy, $2.50 in Greece. Electrical advertising signs were banned after 10 p.m. in France and during the daytime in Britain. In Athens, the floodlights illuminating the Acropolis were turned...
...British papers, which have not had much cheer for Britons lately, did, in fact, trumpet the news. DISCARD BOWS TO WILSON, headlined the Tory Daily Telegraph. WILSON BATTLES TO A SUMMIT WIN ON POINTS, proclaimed the Guardian. A top Foreign Office official allowed that "we have turned the corner in the negotiations." "We have undoubtedly made progress," a pleased Wilson told reporters. "It was not easy. It was hard to get. But there was a considerable atmosphere of good will about to enable us to get it." Foreign Secretary James Callaghan moved up the government's timetable and said...
...spring's election, Israeli embassy officials angered by France's pro-Arab tilt, secret-service men disturbed by Giscard's cavalier disregard of their efforts to protect him, Sygma photographers miffed by presidential patronage of a rival Gamma photographer, and old-guard civil servants appalled by Discard's relatively breezy approach to running the government. The explanation that has gained greatest currency is that hard-line Gaullists, who resent Giscard for having abandoned certain of the general's dogmas, are attempting to undermine his popular support...
...state legislature banned pop-top cans and no-deposit, no-return bottles. Oregonians now must pay a 2? to 5? deposit on containers. The idea was to create an incentive for returning empties or, if they were thrown out anyway, to turn one person's heed less discard into another's petty cash...