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...Certified historians and political scientists shy from such an embarrassing "value judgment." But the voters know they would not want a nonbeliever President, and their instinct is correct. It has been settled that a Catholic can be President. The droll Bob Strauss goes about asking whether the country is grownup enough for "a Texas...
...cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall of 1984, he is not really abandoning the residents of the Walden Puddle Commune, just fiddling with them. "It's time to give them $20 haircuts and move them out into the larger world of grownup concerns," says Trudeau. "The trip from draft beer and mixers to cocaine and herpes is a long one, and it's time they got a start on it." The cartoonist would like to put some distance between the reasons for his hiatus and those of his Pulitzer-prizewinning colleague...
...Americans by the millions, summer is that mellow and hazy season of beaches, baseball and, of course, beer. Yet for the folks who brew the U.S.'s favorite grownup beverage, the summer of 1982 has been anything but serene. American beermakers are engaged in the most ferocious free-for-all in their 357-year history. After years of steady expansion, two giant companies, Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis and Miller Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, are locked in a struggle for dominance of the entire market, while smaller regional and local brewers are getting trampled underfoot. In the past five...
...weary, he is not yet cynical; if his luck is currently as battered as his trench coat, his streetwise honor has been burnished instead of tarnished by hard use. He is Bob the Gambler, out to rob the casino at Deauville, and he is the only certifiable grownup now appearing as a hero on any American screen outside of the revival houses or the late shows...
...currently wearing braces about 800,000 are over 18. (Adults who openly sport braces include Nancy Kissinger, 48, and Miss America of 1975, Shirley Cothran Barrett, 29. Barrett, in fact, appears fully wired in an ad the A.A.O. has been running in magazines to foster a positive image of grownup braces.) Says Spiro Chaconas, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dental School: "If Eleanor Roosevelt were alive today and had braces put on her teeth at, say, age 60, she could have near perfect dentition within a couple of years...