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...York's only Reform Democratic Congressman does not think integrity and success are mutually exclusive in American politics. He is a man of principle with a habit of winning...
Thin Hog. First things first: got to find water. Pa is in the habit of drilling wells with a shotgun. First he walks the lawn with a forked stick. The stick goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says...
...wheeling deals are a habit with this shy Dallas millionaire, who in rimless glasses looks like a bookkeeper. His success does not involve Texas charm or high pressure, of which he has little, but simply his canny ability to fetch up more cash than anyone else. Troy Post's fortune is calculated to be at least $70 million, and he has amassed it almost wholly in the past 16 years by investing in the seemingly bland field of life insurance, where he has shown an eye for companies ready, in his words, "to take...
...optimism." The optimism, however, is restrained: stability rather than boom is the general expectation. And stability, though preferable to a recession, is nothing to cheer about in an economy that has not boomed for five years. Says Swift & Co. Chief Economist Willard Arant: "Economists have fallen into the bad habit of thinking that if we stay even, then we aren't in a recession. But when you don't measure up to a growth trend, you are actually falling back...
...movies with them and drop it off at the box office. The wash is whisked to a nearby automatic laundry, and when the women leave the theater, their clean clothes are waiting for them, dry and neatly packaged. In fact, the shopping-center theater has revived the old habit of family movie night. It is not uncommon to see whole groups of parents and children arrive at the shopping center as soon as Daddy gets home from work, to buy shoes, browse for books, check on coming cultural attractions, eat dinner-and go to the movies...