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Parents are not necessarily straightforward in their advice when they give it. Recalls Bob, a senior at the University of Pittsburgh: "When I was in high school, my father warned me about sex. It wasn't so much the moral part that bothered him; he was afraid I'd knock up a girl and have to get married and get a job. I think he knows I'm living with a girl now, but if it bothers him, he hasn't made any big deal about it. I guess he figures it will help keep me in college and away...
...poltergeist had suddenly gone on a global rampage. At higher latitudes, large glowing streaks and patches of light appeared in the nighttime sky. Short-wave radio communications were disrupted, compass needles danced dizzily back and forth, and utilities braced for stray surges of current that could knock out their power lines. Even the navigational ability of pigeons was believed to be temporarily impaired. These strange doings were not the work of an earthly ghost, but had their source in very real events occurring some 93 million miles away. With no forewarning, the sun underwent a series of violent eruptions that...
Among other things, businessmen insist, higher earnings are really needed to help finance the building of new plants and the purchase of new machines. These capital investments create business growth, which would knock down the nation's persistent and demoralizing high unemployment rate. July's jobless rate at 5.5% remained unchanged from June...
...long ago, such head-to-head comparisons in TV commercials would have contravened advertising's most venerable taboo: never openly knock a competitor's product. Indeed, ads that named a rival product were long banned at the American Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The National Broadcasting Co. permitted the practice in recent years, but few advertisers dared use it. Admen who wanted to tout their clients' goods in a comparative way referred to the competition in tippy-toe "Brand X" allusions. Then in March, the Federal Trade Commission, as part of its drive to improve...
Duck, You Sucker is even more frivolous than the usual Leone. The action, of which there is the customary abundance, takes place in Mexico during the waning days of the revolution. Rod Steiger swaggers through various robberies as a goodhearted, simple-minded bandido whose fondest dream is to knock over the bank in Mesa Verde. He gets his chance when he meets with James Coburn, who plays a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. How Coburn got from the Emerald Isle to Mexico, or why he is a fugitive, is left totally unexplained in the best Leone tradition. Coburn does...