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...film provides an obligatory cast of conventional characters. Claire(Carrie Fischer) is Gilly's indulged, Beverly Hills wife. Fischer, dressed in pastel, silk dressing gowns, is tight lipped and affected. Needless to say she doesn't approve of her eccentric mother-in-law. Her lack of empathy makes Gilly turn to Jane(Catherine Hicks), an aspiring actress, who does deep breathing and tells Gilly about her sexual fantasies on the elevator at work. Claire's spoiled, Jane's daffy, and the result is facile...
...Church of God. They do more than just prepare for a competition, they foretell it, envision it and rehearse it, complete with sound effects. "It's like playing a whole game of chess in your mind," says Sneider, who used to wipe the brow of Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer before matches. Mystically, Stones says, "some things about jumping came to me recently in training sessions, things that were apparently so obvious I missed them. I don't know why they came to me after so many years. I asked Harry why after all this time are these simple...
...dropped to 342,000. Early customer surveys indicate that a whole new class of car buyers is now dis covering vans. Most are former owners of sedans or station wagons, and only 3% previously had vans. Says Maryann Kel ler, a portfolio manager and auto-industry analyst with Vilas-Fischer Associates in New York City: "This is a whole new concept to foist on suburbia...
...Nowhere are the economic stakes bigger than in Florida, where 75% of U.S. citrus fruit is grown. It is believed that a quarter of the nearly ripe crop, worth about $250 million, was wrecked by temperatures as low as 16°. "It was just like Pearl Harbor," says Everett Fischer, general manager of Winter Garden Citrus Growers. "You wake up and-wham!-you've been bombed." Commodity speculators last week bid up the price of orange juice by 15%, and store prices are expected to rise accordingly. Florida produce from peppers to cucumbers and tomatoes was also devastated. Says...
Once freed, Fischer caught up with the presidential foursome, which included Secretary of State George Shultz, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady. Fischer briefed Reagan, who decided to telephone the gunman through the Secret Service radiotelephone link. When Harris kept refusing to say a word to Reagan on the telephone, the President's security aides urged him to get into a heavily guarded limousine. Ten agents followed his limo in an open car, brandishing Uzi submachine guns. The caravan returned the President to Eisenhower Cabin, a white-columned six-bedroom house from which...