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Your article "New Maladies" [June 29] prompts me to report another one. After 30 years of driving a large gas-guzzling automatic-shift car, I switched to a four-cylinder gas saver and developed "manual-transmission knee" from operating the clutch...
...city's new aquarium would be finished by July 4 or he "would jump in the tank." The Fourth came and went-and no completed aquarium. "I'm a man of my word," said Schaefer, and so, toting a rubber duckie and sporting a shoulder-to-knee Victorian bathing suit and a straw boater, the mayor walked the plank and plunked into the seal pool before 300 spectators. Will the aquarium open by Aug. 8, as now promised? Replied Schaefer: "You're going to see a mayor with tape over his mouth." But his lips were...
...Moore, as 007, aims a pistol between her calipered legs. While Boston did not go so far as to ban the poster, the editorial Bowdlers at the Globe and the Los Angeles Times deemed the poster suitable for their eyes only and demurely cropped out everything just above the knee. At the Pittsburgh Press, editors actually put a pair of shorts on the leggy lady. Amidst the furor, three models who had posed for the poster went out on their limbs claiming fame. Photographer Morgan Kane ended all speculation with the announcement that the legwork was the product of Joyce...
...House committees, under Democratic leadership, voted reductions in a range of social programs-food stamps, child nutrition, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education-that did not go as deep as Reagan wanted. In O'Neill's words, the Democrats "cut them off at the knee instead of cutting them off at the hip." The Democrats substituted reductions in other programs-Export-Import Bank loans, for example...
...sentencing laws since 1970. The new laws, enacted to placate a public demanding tough sentences, often make little distinction among crimes; for example, judges are forced to lock up shoplifters and forgers along with murderers and armed robbers. Contends Norman Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: "The knee-jerk response of many legislators in passing harsher sentencing statutes threatens to overwhelm our corrections system...