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...long run, because caring for undersize, ailing infants through Medicaid is many times as costly as preventive prenatal measures. In recent years, private organizations and local governments have attempted to fill the gap left by Wiccutbacks. San Francisco's TAPP, a model program that the state plans to extend to other cities, has helped reduce the incidence of low-birth-weight infants to about 4% among the teenagers it counsels, against a national average...
Banks ordinarily would have been reluctant to extend more money to the debtors. But the Government's support made such big-city institutions as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan more willing to take the chance. Indeed, U.S. banks generally grew healthier in 1985 as they emerged from a two-year crisis of confidence among investors and depositors. Some other U.S. banks, though, had a tumultuous year. More than 115 failed during 1985, the highest number since the Great Depression. Most were small ones buried under a pile of failed farm loans...
...state of emergency should mean that freedom of speech and assembly are restored. But Zia will probably extend those rights selectively, using the Political Parties Act to weed out undesirable opposition groups. In what may have been a sobering harbinger of the future, police arrested about 200 people two weeks ago when the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, a coalition of eleven banned parties calling for Zia's immediate resignation, tried to stage a demonstration in Lahore...
...Chicago, of course. That always clangs a national cowbell. At recurring Cub and White Sox calamities (DePaul's dependable basketball disasters are fairly localized pains), the city's slumped shoulders extend over a remarkably broad piece of the nation. But some things are not meant to be shared and, until now, the Bears have embodied most of them. No outsider is as wary of freezing conditions as a Chicagoan is proprietary of frostbite. Any Sunbelt slur is returned with a blast of icy superiority. "Bear weather," they call it. A Midwesterner's notion of comfort is plainly more profound than...
Until his death in 1980, Cy Taillon was known to the initiated as the "World's Greatest Rodeo Announcer." Around the circuit, which could extend from Puyallup, Wash., to Baton Rouge, La., and into Madison Square Garden itself, no exhibition of bronco riding or calf roping seemed quite complete without Taillon's booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel...