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...like all of a sudden we're a new glamour girl." Military activity currently provides 30,000 of the city's 187,000 jobs and about a third of the local economy. Some 12,500 retired military personnel have been drawn to the city by its mild climate (year-round golf), recreational opportunities in the Rocky Mountains and well-stocked PXs. "In Colorado Springs," says Garland L. Anneler, chairman of the United Bank of Colorado Springs, "generals are as common as dime-store clerks in other towns...
...votes the old-fashioned way," Republican Bob McEwen of Ohio told House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the heat of the debate. "You steal them." McEwen's remark was only one of the unseemly recriminations flung by House Republicans at their Democratic colleagues during the turbulent week. A relatively mild comment came from Minority Leader Robert Michel when ! he said the Democratic majority had "run roughshod" over the Republicans. Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas scoffed at the confrontational Republican theatrics, labeling performances like McEwen's "synthetic fury...
...turn the glass a little. What the public perceives as a vanishing may in fact be an escape into a better reality. In October 1984 Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, 53, one of the bright hopes of the Democratic Party, learned that he had a mild form of cancer. At first, he decided to plow ahead with his re-election campaign. Then he thought better of it. As a friend told him, "Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time on my business.' " Tsongas gave up his political career to spend his time with his family...
...name is Popie Jopie./ I happily travel 'round,/ And always when I arrive/ I spontaneously kiss the ground . . ." So runs last week's fifth- most-popular song on Holland's hit parade. The mild piece of satire contains a punster's slap at Pope John Paul II: popie jopie is a Dutch expression meaning obnoxious. The song is but one indication of the hostility that will greet the Pontiff when he arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday for a four-day visit. More disturbing are the threats of violence. Dutch authorities have mobilized 12,000 police for what will...
...life into the pop ballad. Vocalist Morrissey (maybe soon singers will call themselves just Sam or Mary) possesses a voice that floats in and around Johnny Marr's guitar riffs in elegant, almost improvised anxiety. Morrissey's lyrics express the range of human emotions from suicidal depression to mild unhappiness; he's the ugly, shy boy who everyone picks on and thinks is a fairy--and they're right, too. Yet the Smith's eponymous debut album never descended into mere whining; the self-pity was tempered by self-deprecating humor and self-aware forgiveness...