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...comic collection as it was then. It really appalled me--a lot of them were all torn up and the comics that were there were really shitty--comics like 'Superman.' So I went to the House Committee and got them to give me $25 for the spring semester to fix up the collection. And I got it back in shape...
...plot, and especially by the financing of the operation. "I don't know if anyone in Dominica has that much money," she said puckishly. "If there is someone who wants to waste money out there, I wish he'd give it to me so I could fix the roads...
...addition, St. Louis has taken important steps toward recovery. It stopped tearing down abandoned homes and started selling them, for $100 to $10,000, to people who agreed to fix them up and live in them. Some 15,000 houses have been reclaimed since 1977. "We can provide some pretty doggone cheap housing in this city," says Donald Spaid, director of the Community Development Agency. "It's the new territory for young buyers. The boonies don't hold anything special boonies for them. They grew up in the boonies...
...million for a boost into space from a conventional Atlas-Centaur rocket. Another is that the shuttle can carry several satellites at a time. What is more, says A T & T 's Robert Latter, "you can test the satellite all the way up. Maybe you could even fix it in flight." After the astronauts perfect their skills at retrieving satellites with the shuttle's big mechanical arm, ailing "birds" may also be recovered and repaired either in orbit or on the ground...
...Lady Diana, who entered as an ingénue and was already a star before she got to the footlights. She not only stood up well to the glare, she turned it to good advantage. Hounded by an anxious press, she usually managed to hold her temper and fix her smile. "I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them," she told Charles with a level coolness that seemed to be much older than 19. "I simply treat the press as though they were children...