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...influences on his son. "He would tell us, 'You only get spanked for lying or dishonesty,' " the Senator recalls. His father discouraged his sons from using tobacco by forcing them to smoke two cigars-enough to make them wretchedly sick. Alcohol was also banned in the Mondale household. Fritz Mondale still only smokes an occasional cigar, and two Scotches amount to a bender...
...children are flourishing. Julio, 21, drives a taxi. Adelso, 19, operates a printing press. Diosa, 17, is a hairdresser. Zoila Maria, 15, is studying to be a nurse. The working children contribute part of their earnings to the household, and the household is buoyant. "We have had some problems here," Eloina concedes. "We know the Latin people are looked down on and discriminated against, but we get used to that, and it doesn't mean that we're unhappy here. We're very happy. Our children have a future that our country could never have given them...
...Roosevelt Island-a 147-acre, 2 ½ -mile sliver in the East River-start with well-designed urban housing. The buildings contain grade school classrooms and shops, though Manhattan is only 31/2 minutes away by aerial tramway (TIME, May 24). There is even a pneumatic garbage system that whisks household refuse to a central disposal plant. Perhaps most important, and maybe at some risk, Roosevelt Island mixes income groups-rich, middle class and poor. Opened late last year, the project has leased one-third of its 2,100 rental units and sold 27 of its luxury apartments...
...exports swelled for the fourth consecutive month, making a cumulative increase since the start of the year of more than 22%. Sales abroad for certain items increased dramatically: autos up 62%, household electronics (television sets, tape recorders, stereo systems) up 55%. An important factor, in addition to the U.S. recovery, has been Japan's customary willingness to sell anything to anybody. One hot item: the export of entire factories to Middle Eastern and Communist countries...
...single itinerary to see America in 1976 or any year can be drawn; even the barest mention of familiar landmarks and vistas hopelessly cramps the cartographer's art (see map). Planning a family vacation is a matter of infinite negotiations as the head of the household attempts to accommodate everyone's tastes and whims. Naturally he whims some, loses some, in an effort to schedule the Cooperstown baseball shrine, an art gallery, an antique market and a genuine prehistoric dinosaur park and rock garden all in one fractious, febrile day. Still, it might be instructive to conjure Dickens, Trollope...