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...view of the dismal record of the Carter Administration, giving it an encore would be like securing your kite to an anchor-no place to go but down...
...July the tab at the supermarket checkout counter rose 1.6%, and wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources Inc., an economic...
LAUGH, if you will, that another writer has decided American popular culture is in retrograde. Giggle, if you must, at the thought of a 19-year-old yearning for the good old days. And then go fly a kite. Or soar up a chimney, or jump through a chalk painting on the pavement into a land of animation...
...kite festival, which CBUA bills as a "fly-by-day event," is the second largest in the world. The largest is the thousand-year-old Kite Day in Kyoto, Japan...
...CBUA also held free kite-making workshops in several Boston neighborhoods for two weeks before the festival. This year, the Covenant of Racial Justice, Equity, and Harmony--an ecumenical group dedicated to improving race relations in the city--endorsed the festival from pulpits throughout Boston...