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...stores in the area are offering several unusual creatures this year. Boston Pet Store in Cambridge has an assortment of tarantulas that cost between $15 and $30 depending on the species. If spiders make your skin crawl, don't fret--the lizards will arrive shortly...
...main challengers to Jimmy Carter are beginning to stake out positions on that premier fret of the American public: the economy. So far, they are producing no ideas that seem much different from or better than Carter's but only an array of me-too remedies that are eclectic yet oddly limited. The common thread that winds through nearly all is that Government can help the most by meddling the least. The new fashion for 1980 will not be spend and spend, elect and elect, but cut and trim and hope for the best. A preview of the leading...
...Bankers fret that other OPEC producers may take Iran's experience as a warning and begin moving their funds quietly out of dollars and into foreign currencies, gold and other assets. So far, there is no sign of that happening, nor is there likely to be. Most governments, those belonging to OPEC included, applaud the tough-minded stand that Washington has taken with the Khomeini regime...
Shostakovich wrote the score for the superb Soviet film of Hamlet. It was one of his favorite plays, and there was a line of Hamlet's he particularly liked: "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon...
Most car owners fret about how to coax another year out of the heap in the driveway, but there are still customers aplenty for the expensive, high-precision toys known in the automotive trade as exotic cars. Most of the buyers are men in their early 40s who are lured by names like Aston Martin, Maserati, Ferrari and Lamborghini that whisper freedom and promise sybaritic luxury. Oil-rich Arabs are big buyers: a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family this year paid $114,000 for two Lamborghini Countach-Ss lovingly built in Bologna. Sheiks and wealthy Japanese are queuing...