Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slender and firm at 5 ft. 7 in., she has no worries about bowlegs or "fanny over hang," the bane of many bathing beauties past. In fact, quite another sort of disaster threatens. She does not eat. She cannot sleep. And she loses a crucial 15 Ibs. What to do? More sleep is Charlotte's prescription. But the answer to Christine's problem lies in another notorious nemesis of Miss America girls, her love life. Then she gets a few long and understanding letters from her boyfriend, a second-year man at U.S.C. Medical School whose support...
Still, there is an unsettling feeling that the Camp David summit has been somewhat ill prepared for. It is usually a firm rule of summitry that the participants arrive with a fairly clear idea of the outcome. Mostly, they ratify agreements that have already been worked out in intense negotiations by lower-level officials. Often even the concluding communiques are drafted before the parties formally take their seats. This tradition is designed to avoid the dangers of high-level misunderstandings and wounded national pride. But Camp David is unique; a high U.S. official calls it a "virginal experience...
...running a $700 million annual deficit, is threatened by growing competition from private carriers. If it has to raise the price of stamps, it will lose still more customers. Noted a participant in the talks: "The Postal Service did not need any importuning from the White House to stand firm on the wage package...
...kind based outside the U.S., increased profits about 9% last year, to $2.3 billion-almost as much as Exxon earned on far greater sales. Of all the Sisters, Shell seems best suited to benefit from the trend toward getting a larger share of profit from refining and marketing. The firm has long concentrated on those areas, to the point that outside the U.S. it buys around 60% of its crude from other companies. Says Shell's European coordinator Jan Choufoer: "Adding value to bought crude is the name of our game...
...would go beyond his less than effective voluntary program but would not, the White House insists, include any form of wage-price controls. Carter's top economic advisers will begin poring over various proposals for a "Stage Two" anti-inflationary program this week. None of them are yet firm and as one Administration planner groaned: "All the alternatives are lousy...