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...former professor of zoology at the University of Washington, Dixy Ray, an admitted political neophyte, was a surprise winner of last September's Democratic primary. Ray, a small, chunky woman who lives with two dogs in a pre-fab home on an island, waged an energetic, 18-hour-a-day campaign on a skimpy budget to defeat the less colorful, pipe-smoking Spellman. As Governor, Ray is expected to pursue a generally conservative course, trimming the state budget and considering an income tax to replace other levies if the need arises. Predictably, she favors development of nuclear energy...
...cities, parks are becoming as popular as pigeons. Writing in the current Public Interest, Donald Simon, a former New York City parks official, tells how communities are shunning parks and turning down proposals for new ones. They have often become the most dangerous areas of the city, 24-hour-a-day roosts for the criminal population...
...diversified enough to protect it against sudden shocks in any one segment of the economy, insists that his rush for major acquisitions is over. "What remains," he says, "is some fine adjustments-sell a bit here, buy a bit there." Wall manages to soften the hectic 16-hour-a-day pace of his business life by relaxing with his family, which he calls "my breathing space." Every weekend he, his wife Ann, his son Johan, 11, and his daughter Osa, 7, escape to the family's 600-acre farm at Starfors. Ironically, the farm is one of Wall...
...such a short visit I am not in a position to examine all your problems, but we take note of them." Dismayed at first by the prospect of pressing the flesh, Juan Carlos was soon chuckling at the experience?and he does not chuckle often. As the 18-hour-a-day tour wore on, the royal smile grew wider...
...nearly 40 years Lennie Lyons was Broadway's most cheerful, most benign columnist. He attended openings good and bad. He chatted easily with a cast of public people that included royalty and burlesque comics. Once given the choice between Lyons' 14-hour-a-day schedule or six months in jail, a group of wags-including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott-unanimously chose the clink...