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...House measure would provide a grace period of 15 months to the 29 states and the District of Columbia that now permit the sale of alcohol to 18-to 20-year-olds. Any state that failed to enact the new federal standard of 21 by 1987 would lose 5% of its federal highway funds for that year and 10% in 1988. There is little doubt that the threat of losing highway money, amounting to tens of millions of dollars in populous states, would press most noncomplying legislatures into action. Says Idaho State Representative Linden Bateman: "If the federal legislation passes...
Theobald, though, accepted his disappointment with grace. The day the appointment was announced to employees, he was host at a cocktail party for Reed at the Club, a private dining room in the Citicorp Center on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Said a bank officer: "Theobald was the one who did it, not Wriston. Tom invited people over to have drinks for John, the winner. It was a class act." -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York
...have been designed originally as a natural monument to defiance, constructed out of high-tension wires, never to be touched. But his mettle must have softened over 15 seasons, or maybe some of the temper has just gone out of him. While Kareem still shoots and passes with grace and guile, he does not get his share of rebounds any more. On the worst basketball teams, the center is expected to do everything. On the best ones, he is required to rebound. If the Laker center was not surrounded by so many willowy teammates, it would not seem to matter...
...summertime means that most bands, and many listeners, do their level best to flee the city. As a result, the selection for rock and pop listeners is much more limited than during the regular school year. Nonetheless, there will be some gems in the dust heap of national biggies grace Boston and environs...
...Other grace notes on the "best" New York has to offer are contributed by old hands such as Jimmy Breslin, Beverly Sills and Walter Cronkite. But the bulk of the text is prepared by local experts and visiting writers who often have a fresher eye for detail than most natives. In every section, one guiding spirit can be detected: Wurman's childhood hero, Paul Klee. He explains, "Klee's paintings had a shorthand that described action, feeling, color, mood. They were not about painting but communication and visual literacy." The overall technique could be a model for future...