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...their early ratings and in their personal chemistry, they were a hard act to follow. So hard, in fact, that last week NBC abandoned the plural approach to the evening news. For the first time in 15 years, it will go with a single anchor man. In mid-August, veteran Newsman John Chancellor gets...
...political organization, Sekber Golkar. Last week, when 57 million Indonesians went to the polls in the country's first national elections in 16 years, a majority of them probably punched the sign of the banyan tree on the ballot. Exactly how many will not be known until mid-August, when President Suharto will announce the results. But since the government had already reserved the right to appoint 100 members of the 460-member House of Representatives, there is little doubt that the military regime will obtain a clear majority in Parliament and thus be able to re-elect...
...ashamed of." His customers evidently agree. The Manhattan boutique is now pulling in up to $12,000 a week; Madonna outlets are already going strong in New York's Westchester County and Long Island, and in New Jersey and Beverly Hills. Other branches are due to open by mid-August in Houston. Chicago, Washington, Miami, Boston and Montreal. Customers are mostly young-and sometimes not even pregnant. But then, explains Designer Basha Johnson, 22, "I don't design for the pregnant woman. I design for myself." Miss Johnson's waistline measures a reedy 24 inches. Nonetheless...
...stock market's rally from its late-May low of 631 on the Dow-Jones industrial average lost a bit of steam last week. Having climbed nearly 70 points since mid-August, the blue-chip indicator dropped nine points and closed at 762, reflecting profit taking, worry over possible auto and railroad strikes and concern about the danger of a new explosion in the Middle East. Despite the dip, analysts are generally cheerful. As the market moves into its traditional post-Labor Day period of reappraisal -both of economic prospects and of individual portfolios-many Wall Streeters think that...
...1960s, there have been mounting numbers of isolated incidents of guerrilla-style attacks on policemen in many U.S. cities. In July, a white officer on Chicago's South Side was shot and killed as he sat in his patrol car filling out a report. In Omaha in mid-August, one policeman was killed and seven others injured when a bomb exploded as they investigated a report of "a woman screaming." Two weeks ago, in a largely black district of Los Angeles, a policeman had his skull creased by a bullet moments after he heard the shout...