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...hours later, Carter was the genial host at a far different kind of picnic: a shindig on the South Lawn of the White House for some 800 labor leaders and their wives. Desperately in need of labor support, Carter last week was rewarded with the endorsement of the diminished but still influential...
...mart has prospered because of a no-frills policy that places the premium on value. In stores that usually have the ambience of a supermarket, customers can wander amid clothing, lawn chairs and stereos, rarely encountering a sales assistant. But the prices, as much as 15% below those at tonier stores, make up for the inconvenience...
...together one of the best comedy acts in the trade by dealing shamelessly in things other comics struggle to hide-like fear, anger and humiliation. In performance, Dangerfield is the enemy of poise. A minute after he hits the lights, his brow throws off sweat like a lawn sprinkler. His eyes bulge. His hands claw at his throat. He may be trying to loosen his tie, but it looks as if he is trying to strangle himself. The whole performance is a screwball incarnation of the comedian's deepest nightmare: flop sweat, the purgatorial feeling of bombing out, when...
...barely one-fifth still stand. In Champaign-Urbana, Ill., there were 14,000 elms at the end of World War II. Now there are only 220. A celebrated loss occurred a year and a half ago, when one of the most venerable elms on the White House lawn, a 105-ft. giant planted in the days of Rutherford B. Hayes, had to be felled and carted...
...sport. But for the two weeks of the 94th Wimbledon Championships, they resembled nothing so much as disappointed children kept in at recess, staring wistfully from clubhouse windows as the glowering skies dumped near record rains and even a hailstorm on the hallowed courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club...