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...town of 700 permanent residents and, on weekends, as many as 50,000 sun seekers. Only 20 miles from Mexico via the causeway to Brownsville, South Padre has a comparable latitude-and, partisans assert, a more congenial climate-than Miami. Says former Mayor John Austin, a retired Marine Corps major and avid fisherman: "I really think the possibilities here are unlimited." Not surprisingly, the town is alive with the sound of bulldozers, and spanking new condominiums are sprouting like dune grass. Eight buildings with 306 condominium units are under construction, and 116 more units...
Washington was alive with investigations and promises of investigations to find out what went so terribly wrong at the Metropolitan Edison Co. plant. In his major energy address Thursday night, Jimmy Carter preceded his call for phased decontrol of oil prices and a windfall tax on petroleum companies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) with the announcement that he would appoint an independent commission to look into the accident and make recommendations for improving the safety of all nuclear plants. Said the President: "You deserve a full accounting, and you will...
Silber wrote Arthur G.B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustess: "I thought that press handling has been pretty good thus far and, fortunately, there is enough significant news elsewhere to prevent major space...
Photochemotherapy was first introduced in 1974, when dermatologists hailed it as a major advance in the treatment of psoriasis. It is still in the testing stage, although almost 35,000 people received the treatment last year...
...girl who used to play football, basketball and baseball with her brothers" on Chicago's North Shore. Or unless you knew about the 150 people who'd interviewed her in the three weeks after she was named the first woman sports editor of what many people consider it the major metropolitan daily. (As a matter of fact, she is the first woman sports editor of any major metropolitan daily.) Or about the six marriage proposals she got in those same three weeks...