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...Congressman's best friend. For nearly 25 years he doled out pork, fixed parking tickets and covered bad checks at the House bank. But when the bank's irregularities came to light, Russ resigned, making himself ineligible for a $70,000-a-year pension -- at least until Representative Mervyn Dymally of California put Russ back on the payroll as his "adviser." Now Russ can get full health benefits and his pension...
Pluralism in the New UnofficialPress--by Mervyn Matthews, professor,University of Surrey, England and Nick Daniloff,Northeastern University and the Russian ResearchCenter. Coolidge Hall, Room 3, noon.Tuesday, 10 March
Down on Battleship Row, Fuchida's bombers kept pounding the helpless battlewagons. The West Virginia took six torpedoes, then two bombs. One large piece of shrapnel smashed into the starboard side of the bridge and tore open the stomach of the skipper, Captain Mervyn Bennion. A medic patched up the dying man's wound, and a husky black mess steward, Doris Miller, who had once boxed as the ship's heavyweight champion, helped move the stricken captain to a sheltered spot...
...them in different places. More than a fourth of the people surveyed by Leo Burnett last week said they plan to do much of their Christmas shopping this year in discount stores. Among the well- managed retailers surging ahead of the pack as a result: the Gap, Wal-Mart, Mervyn's, T.J. Maxx, Costco and Crate & Barrel in Chicago, which specializes in moderately priced housewares. Quality retailers expected to excel by offering affordable luxury range from Dillard department store to Crabtree & Evelyn (bath and toiletries), Williams-Sonoma (kitchenware) and one of the industry's strongest performers, Victoria's Secret (lingerie...
...gallon jug of molasses. "This is for six months. You make pancakes with it. I buy everything big." Her monthly budget is tightly knotted around fixed costs: $400 goes for rent, not including gas and electric bills; Lorena's school, Immaculate Conception, is $80 a month; $15 goes to Mervyn's department store for clothes bought earlier; food takes $40 a week; Mull's bus pass is $42 a month. "I never go to the dances," she says. "I never go to the movies." An outing usually means church on Sundays. "I worry about the rent," Mull says softly...