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...also rushed an additional $5 million in emergency-"lethal," meaning combat-equipment, including M-16 rifles and M-79 grenade launchers, as well as four more helicopters and a dozen more U.S. technicians. In fact, the Salvadoran military could probably outfit two battalions with the caches captured from the guerrillas during their offensive. Most of the weapons were of Western manufacture: Belgian automatic rifles, Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns and U.S. M16s. There were also large numbers of Soviet grenades and Chinese-made rocket launchers. The weapons, bought in many places and stockpiled in Nicaragua, according to intelligence reports...
They have names like Charlie Horse, Chaps. Mr. McNasty's, Outlaws. Cody's, Dallas, Lone Star Cafe, San Antone Rose.'Silver Saddle, Gopher Gulch and Wild Wild West. The sound of their music is country, and the cut of their outfit is cowboy. Country-and-western nightclubs are riding high. In towns and cities from New Paltz, N.Y., to Carmichael, Calif., and North to South, there are now countless sagebrush saloons, corralling urban buckaroos with lively rustic dancing, good ole buddydom and a frontier atmosphere that may owe more to hype than history but is infectious nonetheless...
...Inauguration, Reagan will be the first President since J.F.K. to wear formal morning attire. The selection, made by Reagan himself: an Italian-style black jacket of barathea cloth and striped gray woolen trousers with a three-button dove-gray vest, an outfit for which Reagan's Beverly Hills tailor, Frank Mariani, will charge him $1,250. Average rental price of a similar suit for Washington dignitaries: $42. The new President has no head for toppers. Nancy has a new mink in the closet, but may forgo it in favor of a Republican cloth coat. The Reagans' attire will...
...rental car should look as if it had just wafted in from the assembly line, right? Not necessarily. There is one national outfit that actually prides itself on hiring out autos that are up to ten years old and often look it. The network, sardonically named Rent-A-Wreck, charges only $11.95 to $14.95 a day for its standard cars, depending on location. They are mechanically sound and clean, though they may sport a dent or two. (Avis' shiny, new-model cars, by comparison, can cost up to $64 a day in some cities.) Rent-A-Wreck...
Jartran is now the fastest-growing rent-a-truck outfit in the history of the business. It has aggressively bought full-page ads in scores of newspapers and magazines, posted Jartran flyers in thousands of apartment buildings and mailed discount cards to graduating college seniors who would soon be moving their books, hi-fi sets and clothes. After some 17 months of operation, Jartran has more than 30,000 trucks and trailers and 2,200 independent dealers in the 48 mainland states. The waiting list for dealerships numbers 1,800. Though start-up costs have precluded any profits...