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...called, is Stephen D. Isaacs, 41, former Washington Post Wunderkind (metropolitan editor at 26) and most recently director of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. When Isaacs became the Star's editor a year ago, the paper was, in the words of Publisher Donald R. Dwight, 48, "a warmed-over daily news report that was neither timely nor very interesting." The Star had lost 75,000 subscribers since the 1950s. Last July, for the first time in its 59 years, the paper fell behind the morning Tribune (circ. 226,899). Both are owned by the Minneapolis Star...
...Rice, who stroked a Rick Wise slider into the screen for three third-inning runs, Dwight Evans and Fred Lynn provided Boston's wallop, and Dennis Eckersley kept the Tribe subdued with seven innings of two-hit pitching...
...Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics and Modern China Studies, and a leading authority on Chinese agricultural development, began the discussion at Emerson Hall, which about 100 people attended...
...admirable boosterism pervades the city. A. Dwight Button, chairman of the Fourth National Bank, boasts that he has hired two senior officers away from Houston banks. Iowa-born Richard Upton, who runs the hyperactive Chamber of Commerce, points to Metropolitan Life, NCR and many other big companies that have opened branches in the area. Tom Pierce, Wichita's AFL-CIO chief, notes that despite its right-to-work law, Kansas' average hourly wage is fairly high ($6.11). Says Pierce: "If workers come here and stay for two or three months, you would have a tough time getting them...
History thus far has played a sort of perverse trick on Jimmy Carter. The long string of serious problems, while not calamitous enough to thrust him into a dramatic posture, has nevertheless deprived him of the kind of quiet era of national relaxation over which Dwight Eisenhower governed so benevolently. Carter is a Democratic President assigned by the times to preside not over the sharing of wealth and prosperity, but over the setting of limits. In international affairs, he is forced to accept responsibility for events beyond Washington's control...