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...must stay awake in bed all night so as not to disturb the henna markings on her hands and feet, Diana remarked, "Poor bride." Later the Princess set Arab tongues wagging when she appeared in a lilac silk- crepe jacket, worn over a mid-calf-length skirt, that prompted fervent speculation as to whether or not she was wearing a brassiere underneath. Popular opinion held that...
...more than a month, America's Ford and Italy's Fiat had waged a fervent campaign for the hand of Alfa Romeo, the prestigious but financially troubled maker of sleek sports cars. Last week the local swain won. I.R.I., the Italian state conglomerate that owns Milan-based Alfa, announced acceptance of Fiat's $5 billion offer for 100% ownership. Also-ran Ford's bid was never made public, but it was believed to include an initial $100 million for a 20% chunk of Alfa plus promises of a hefty $2 billion additional investment in the company...
...question of what to do about the alleged excesses of the domestic stock market is considerably thornier. Many people argue that there is little or nothing to be done at all. That feeling is particularly strong within the Reagan Administration, which has a fervent belief in what the President calls the "magic of the marketplace...
When the drift was first spotted in the early 1980s, it stirred only academic interest. But this year, as more economists and politicians began to take note of it, the seemingly slight squiggle on the demographic chart has sparked a fervent debate. The great American middle class, the provocateurs contend, is no longer so great. It is shrinking steadily, goes the theory, and shedding its members into the economic extremes of wealth and poverty. "There has been a thinning of the middle class," says David Bloom, an associate professor of economics at Harvard. "As society becomes more polarized...
...network of the right has been fulminating with discontent for some time, wondering what has caused this disheartening metamorphosis in one of the nation's most fervent anti-Communists. "The center of foreign policy has shifted to the State Department," grouses Harvard Professor Richard Pipes, thus relieving Reagan of personal blame. Yet many who have watched this alteration in Reagan's approach to superpower relations believe that while the President has indeed evolved, he has hardly abandoned his visceral dislike of the Soviet system. "There's been no change," insists his wife Nancy. "His feelings go way back...