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American mini-blitz on behalf of their new album Give 'Em Enough Rope: ten days, seven cities, stretching from Berkeley to New York, stirring up waters that flow far too free and easy. "American audiences like music to keep you happy," observes Drummer Nicky ("Topper") Headon. "It's music for you to drive home by." "It's the most dreadful thing," Lead Guitarist Mick Jones declares scornfully. "The Aerosmiths, the Foghats, the Bostons-they've kind of signed themselves...
Abandoning the near-Olympian distance he had maintained up to now from the bitter political skirmishing, Giscard attacked the left headon. Pointing out some of the successes achieved by Premier Raymond Barre's policy of cautious stimulation-a December trade surplus, four months of falling unemployment and a slowing rate of inflation (0.3% for December)-Giscard argued that only the center and right were capable of leading the country out of its lingering economic malaise. "If we want to be cured," he thundered, "we must choose the right doctor. If we choose the easy way out, the economy will...
Since taking the case at Lance's request on Labor Day weekend, Clifford had digested all of the treacherous details, brought discipline and organization to Lance's arguments, and counseled him to meet his accusers headon. Day and night the two worked in Clifford's dark-paneled office overlooking the White House, hammering out an artfully worded defense to each charge of impropriety...
...serious business of games played by grown men-it is the most difficult task in sport. Consider the problem: a bat 2¾ in. in diameter at its widest, hitting a ball not quite 3 in. in diameter; two objects-one cylindrical, the other a sphere-meeting headon. Consider the speed: a major league pitcher's fastball traveling well over 90 m.p.h., hissing the 60-ft. 6-in. distance from mound to plate in ⅔ of a second. Consider the odds: the game's greatest stars failing the task seven times in ten, and still they...
...number of women in the South's civilian labor force rose more than 40%; much of the increase was in technical and professional jobs. Women have accomplished this quiet revolution almost circumspectly -taking a cue from their mothers by never attacking the old code headon. "As long as she was respectable," says Duke University Historian Anne Firor Scott, "a Southern woman could get away with an awful lot." A young Georgia-born woman-now a writer in New York-recalls her mother drumming into her head: "Do, but don't be seen doing." Says Molly Haskell, a Manhattan...