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...public fuss over the First Lady's finery started in November 1981 after she voluntarily informed the White House staff that she had been accepting clothes as gifts, including a $25,000 Galanos creation that she wore to the 1981 Inauguration. She asked whether this was wrong. White House attorneys advised that she could accept clothes as loans but would have to disclose them...
...government, or any government, then centering on the individual triumphs of Eva would impart an important, if not entirely orginal, lesson: that fate lies ultimately in each person's hands. But if we are to believe that hope lies in a democratic government taking power, then why all the fuss about Eva, and why such a conscious effort by Allende to avoid discussing politics directly...
...Kennedy School of Government plans to become an international center, then call it a school of diplomacy or of foreign relations. Otherwise, observers should ask: Why all the fuss...
...fuss? The word is out that eating oats can lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Result: groceries and supermarkets can't keep oat products on the shelves. Sales of oatmeal have jumped 20% this year, and oat- bran purchases have more than quintupled. The Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is working three shifts every day and still not meeting demand. At the Real Food Co. in San Francisco, a health-food emporium, sales of bulk oat bran have tripled in the past year to 1,000 lbs. a month. Sales of oat- based breakfast cereals and cookies have...
Still, the fuss over oats is unlikely to abate soon. One reason Americans find the grain prescription so attractive, says Researcher Anderson, is that it offers relief from the barrage of negative advice. "People get tired," he explains, "of being told what...