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Resilient couples have learned to find some advantages in their constant separations. Many speak of having more time for work, friends and hobbies; others point to their newfound self-sufficiency. Shelly London, 38, an AT&T district manager of public relations in Atlanta, and Larry Kanter, 38, a radio news anchor in the same city, find that incompatible hours help keep the romance in their relationship. "We're sort of always newlyweds," London says. "We're real jealous of our time on weekends...
...year is 1948, and in postwar Los Angeles, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson, of course) is enjoying newfound prosperity at his old trade. For a private eye specializing in "matrimonial" cases, a fluid society with a rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire...
...Southern Christian Leadership Conference are holding their annual meeting in mid-June. Joseph Lowery, the organization's president, says, "The S.C.L.C. does not endorse candidates. But I does." Yet Lowery marks several points of disagreement with the man who would be Georgia's Governor -- for example, the candidate's newfound support for capital punishment. Even members of Dr. King's organization, for which Young worked in the glory days of the '60s, will give him only qualified support. The Rev. Mr. Lowery continues, "I support Andrew Young, not because he is colored -- for one thing, he ain't all that...
With the added experience gained from the junior nationals, Harvard Coach Harry Parker put Sharis in the Harvard varsity boat the following spring and Sharis' newfound magic touch continued to rub off, as the Crimson eight went on to win the national championship in Cincinnati...
Bush has been torn between appeasing Congress and rewarding Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu for Japan's newfound flexibility. Just two months ago, U.S. negotiators came out of trade talks in Tokyo angry and frustrated. But seven hours of meetings between Bush and Kaifu last March in California, more talking time than any previous U.S.-Japan summit, were a watershed. Shortly afterward came a flurry of agreements, including a pact on far-reaching structural reforms. Among other changes, Tokyo promised to ease restrictions on opening large department stores and to impose tougher penalties for protectionist bid-rigging schemes...