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There were some disappointments. CBS could not get interviews with any of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former President Jimmy Carter canceled an appointment after a camera crew had arrived in Plains, Ga. "The reason given," says Stringer, "was that his advisers decided this was an 'inappropriate forum.' " Cronkite found the Soviets so uninformative that he was reduced to interviewing Alexander Bovin, a journalist who is said to be a speechwriter for Leonid Brezhnev, and exploring Moscow's motives by taping a long bull session with Western correspondents...
That long-famous but never-released photograph of Jimmy Carter and his "killer rabbit" finally surfaced last week. It should lay to rest any doubts as to the former President's bunny tale. Fishing alone in 1979 in a small watership down in Plains, Ga., Jimmy was alarmed to see "a fairly robust-looking rabbit" hissing menacingly, with teeth flashing and nostrils flared, paddling furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even...
Savvy travelers are picking up on the savings that can be made by taking advantage of routing peculiarities. A Delta ticket from Boston to Atlanta costs $197. But from Boston to Augusta, Ga., the fare is only $185, even though Augusta passengers must change planes in Atlanta. Travel agents suggest that at least some customers are now buying a ticket to Augusta and walking out of the airport in Atlanta with their carry-on luggage in hand, thus saving...
...meet the most fantastic people doing couponing," says Betty Buckley, a Marietta, Ga., housewife with eight children who estimates that she saves $2,000 a year with coupons and refunds. When groups of friends gather for "swap meetings," she says, "you can be sure you all have something in common-inflation." Mary Janoyan, 33, a Troy, Mich., housewife, boasts of saving an average of $200 a month on her household budget. Says she: "If couponing and refunding were stopped tomorrow, I'd have to go some place for my withdrawal symptoms...