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...airliner smashes into a mountain, there is no escape, except for the very few--four this time--favored by the whims of fate. That was tragically clear last week as the helicopters carried body after body, wrapped in bright blankets, down from the smoldering wreckage on Mount Osutaka. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Fujioka and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...industry's top dogs, McDonald's and Burger King, are also moving to expand their menus, though more cautiously. "Our menu is meat and potatoes. That's been the staple of the American diet for two centuries," says Ed Rensi, chief operations officer of McDonald's, which serves 6% of the American population every day. Yet McDonald's has given nonbeef eaters a break with its popular Chicken McNuggets, which have been widely imitated, and the company is testmarketing a prepackaged salad...
...friend, I have to say that the whole setup seems awfully familiar. I mean, back at WJM in Minneapolis we had pompous Ted Baxter; now you've got pompous Ed LaSalle (John Astin), the womanizing theater critic. At least Ted was a comic type--the featherbrained anchorman--that everybody could recognize. This LaSalle fellow doesn't make sense. He comes on as a Broadway blusterer, yet claims he never goes to "commercial pap" like Cats and Dreamgirls. Then what's he doing writing for a blue-collar tabloid? Your other co-workers are more credible. Your boss (James Farentino) seems...
ADOPTED. By Victoria Valentine McMahon, 40, and Ed McMahon, 62, veteran TV announcer who is best known as Johnny Carson's chuckling foil but is also a popular presence in commercials: their first child, a girl; in New York City. Name: Katherine Mary. McMahon has four grown children from a previous marriage...
...repeating, "It will never end. It will never end." He was, of course, referring to the horrible ordeal he had just endured. But he could just as easily have been describing the inevitable cycle of terror and retaliation that has come to characterize politics in the Middle East. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Walter Galling/Rome and Gertraud Lessing/Vienna