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...winners remained incredulous even after they had double-, triple- and quadruple-checked the lucky ticket, one of 21 they had purchased and agreed to share. Celso Manuel Garcete, the Paraguayan who had picked the numbers at random, said it all for the group: "I'm a little nervous, surprised, excited. It's a very big change." What more was there to say? By equally splitting their almost $13.7 million share of the jackpot, they will each receive 21 annual after-tax payments of about $24,000, starting this year. As the winners contemplated new houses and cars and college tuition...
Other contenders for the council race are CCA-endorsed Renae Scott and rent control advocate Michael Turk. Also taking out papers were Lewis Armistead, Manuel Bonitatibus, Ronald Campbell, Elio Centrella, Vincent Dixon, Winston Forde, Kenneth Reeves, and George Spartichino, William Walsh...
...debt that worries economists most is the federal budget deficit. It threatens to grow at the staggering annual rate of $200 billion for the rest of the decade. Attempts to slow down the borrowing, like the currently deadlocked budget negotiations in Congress, seem futile. The deficit, warns Manuel Johnson, assistant treasury secretary for economic policy, "is a symptom that Government is spending beyond its means. Ultimately, if it continues to do that, it will force the private sector to finance that spending by having to pay higher taxes or having to tolerate higher inflation or higher interest rates." The Constitution...
...Manuel Martins Simtoes had been a truck driver in Lisbon, but when he got to Newark in 1974, he worked on a construction gang during the week and waited on tables weekends. Eventually, he saved enough money to buy a restaurant. "The building was really broken down and dirty," Simoes says, "but my wife and I rebuilt the whole thing and put in a private dining room and a barbecue in the back." After seven years, he sold the place for a $185,000 profit and returned to Lisbon to set himself and his brother up in business and live...
...directed and produced by Englishmen, and Colonel Redl, a period political drama made under German, Austrian and Hungarian aegis. The choice for best actor was American Star William Hurt, playing an imprisoned homosexual in the Brazilian film Kiss of the Spider Woman, based on a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. Insignificance, which took the technical prize, was the official British entry, but its setting (Manhattan), cast (including Tony Curtis) and characters (fictionalized renderings of Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein and Senator Joseph McCarthy) were uniquely American...