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...private geneaologist discovers that Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, Economics Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and Los Angeles Laker star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are, in fact, distant relatives. "No one ever believed me when I said I have a great fade away jumper, and now they will," says an elated Galbraith. "We are all Keynestans now," intones the 6-foot, 9-inch Fox, tossing the College's 1983 budget into the wastebasket...
Israel mourns its dead as hopes for peace begin to fade...
...soldiers fade away...
...clear victory for the party's majority of middle-of-the-road socialists. But the militants have vowed to fight back. Meanwhile, Thatcher is still riding the wave of public approval caused by her two-fisted conduct of the Falklands war, though such memories are beginning to fade. And despite 14% unemployment, the highest since the 1930s, Labor has been too preoccupied with factional squabbling to gain in the polls. Late surveys show Labor 13 percentage points behind the Conservatives and only three points ahead of the S.D.P.-Liberal alliance. Though Foot may finally have begun to quell opposition...
...last year on the road between the city and Walt Disney World, offers, in addition to the usual stores, an antique-costume portrait center, a time-share condominium sales office, a Pac-N-Send mailing service and a video-game room. Traditional retailers hope that the factory outlets will fade away with the return of better economic times. Perhaps, but in the meantime, factory outlets will continue to be today's fashion...