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...Soon Tracy is the most popular gal on the dance floor. Wait a minute, Amber thinks, that's my job, and squalls, with a lovely petulance, "Everybody, stop liking her!" But everybody can't stop. Link, the divoonest guy in town, feels a strange urge to be with the fat girl. Even Edna is impressed by Tracy's new radiance: "If I'd known you were gonna get on the show, I never woulda said don't do it." Tracy also gets endorsements. At Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, Mr. P. wants Tracy to be the shop's "exclusive spokesperson...
DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli inventor of the Uzi submachine gun; in Philadelphia. He let his name be used for the gun only after the manufacturer insisted; Uzi is the abbreviation for the Hebrew phrase "God is my might...
Physicist Harris Goldberg wants to revolutionize the $1 billion tire-sealant business, but until that goal is realized, he will settle for tennis balls. InMat, Goldberg's seven-employee company in Hillsborough, N.J., regularly ships to Wilson Sporting Goods 55-gal. drums filled with an environmentally safe liquid containing 1-nm-thick sheets of clay. When the material coats the inside of a tennis ball, it traps air far more effectively than standard rubber alone and doubles the life of the ball. Wilson's Double Core, which made its debut more than a year ago, sells at a premium...
...should go - 1982's Intimate Exchanges famously explored a multitude of different endings. And some trickery is afoot in Damsels (directed by the author). In play No. 1, GamePlan, a disturbing drama of teenage prostitution turns into a hide-the-corpse farce; in play No. 2, FlatSpin, a lonely-gal romance becomes a spy thriller; and in RolePlay a meet-the-parents dinner comedy morphs into a piercing study of social class...
...DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli engineer and inventor of the submachine gun that bears his name; in Philadelphia. Sales of the reliable and easy-to-use weapon, a staple in the military arsenals of over 20 countries, have earned Israel's government-run armaments industry over $2 billion in revenue since the Uzi's introduction...