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Suddenly, things are looking up, way up. During the last ten days of June, Ford registered a robust 76.8% increase in sales over the same period in 1982. The whole U.S. auto industry was whipping along in the fast lane during that time, in fact, with a pickup of 58.7%, and sales for the entire month were up 48% over June 1982. But Ford clearly outdistanced the pack...
Last week's mishaps could have been far more disastrous. The six-lane Interstate 95 is a main route for tens of thousands of Connecticut suburbanites who commute daily to Manhattan. When the bridge collapsed just before 1:30 a.m., however, only four vehicles were zooming over the affected eastbound lanes: two tractor-trailers and two passenger cars. A few hundred feet away, Gordon Oilman was drawn to his home's riverfront window. "I thought I heard an explosion," he says. "I looked out and saw a truck and a car coming off the bridge...
...earlier stories, the rivalry was played mostly for romantic-comedy laughs. The first two Superman movies were at their most engaging when they updated the screwball sensibility of old Hollywood, casting Super Clark (Christopher Reeve) as a gently bumbling Fred MacMurray type and his inamorata Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) as a hip career woman in the Rosalind Russell mold. Superman III expands on the humor and enriches the pathos by phasing out Lois and introducing a new love interest: Lana Lang (Annette O'Toole), the girl Clark left behind in Smallville. Lana respects Superman but carries a torch...
...fastest in the world. Sometimes that's all it takes. But sometimes the visitor asks the question Haggerty doesn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just says "It's in the Stadium." Rarely does he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...
Special Papers, prepared by Tammy Huang, Mary s. Humes, Holly A. Idelsott, Rebecca J. Joseph, Chuck Lane, Thomas J. Mayor, and Michael W. Miller...