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...spring break. The traditional time to shed campus cares and haul hormones off for some sun and fun. But as the recess started last week at Vanderbilt University, one group of students was off in pursuit of more serious exertions. A score went to a Sioux reservation in South Dakota to do painting, tiling and light carpentry at a Y.M.C.A. center; a dozen arrived in Juarez, Mexico, to help build a "serviglesia," a church to serve the poor; another twelve headed for Appalachia's "Valley of Despair" to plant fir trees and work on construction and furniture-building projects. Says...
Some American business managers are pleased with the investment boom. Mike McCormack, a leading commercial-property broker in Honolulu, credits Japanese investments with pulling Hawaii out of a long real estate slump. Since Japanese real estate investors tend to buy for the long haul, many industry experts believe they will make excellent landlords, committed to maintaining the value of their properties. Other U.S. business executives simply view the real estate boomlet as a harmless way to handle America's lopsided balance of payments with Japan by in effect trading high-rises and land for VCRs and cars. After...
Helicopters hovering overhead dropped rescue workers to grab survivors, many of them wearing orange life vests, and haul them to safety...
...space race when the Air Force awarded it a $734 million contract. The firm will build a fleet of up to 20 unmanned rockets by 1991 to launch military satellites. While that work is under way, it will be relatively cheap for McDonnell Douglas to build additional rockets to haul commercial payloads...
...meantime, distress has generated disorder. Last week in Rio de Janeiro thousands of truck drivers who haul food to warehouses went on strike for higher pay, and supermarket shelves began to empty. Some truckers who tried to deliver produce got their windshields smashed as they drove through gauntlets of rock-throwing pickets. After 48 hours of disruption, the strike ended when drivers received a hefty 72% raise...