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...wind rushing by so fast it screams. To be a downhill racer is to know there are only 218 centimeters of fiberglass between mortal flesh and the earth whipping past at 75mph. To be a downhill racer is to use all your strength and concentration to reach skiing's outer limits. And only one women at Harvard can tell you what it's like...
Returning from his vacation, President Reagan announces a cabinet shakeup. "My inner circle will be replaced by my outer circle," Reagan said, explaining that he had "heard every joke Meese, Baker and Deaver know two or three times...
...trained on them, "to keep them working." Off to the left of he picture is the device. It looks like a wheel with a hollow hub and spokes leading out to the rim. Or perhaps it is a doughnut with lines on it. Three extra lines extend from the outer rim at he bottom, giving the thing the appearance of an insect. At the top there is yet another line sticking out at an angle to the right, the end of which is attached to a small ring...
...WHICH leads back to the Daily News. The News has a market too, and that it its biggest asset--and problem. The people who read the Daily News are, for the most part, the stable, ethnic families who live in New York's outer boroughs--the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. For years, this represented a solid constituency, and the News served it well, with pungent, readable prose, catchy headlines and cranky, right-wing editorials. And the public responded; "Da Nooz," as it is popularly known, achieved the largest circulation of any paper in American history, selling 2.3 million...
...notice the date. The end of the war meant trouble for the News. Those outer borough families which could moved to the suburbs, where several dailies--particularly Long Island's Newsday--sprung up to serve them. Further, the expatriates were replaced mostly by Blacks and Hispanics, to whom the News did not appeal nearly as much. Or they were not replaced at all; the population of New York has declined by more than a million since its peak after...