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Skutnik, 28, a $14,000-a-year clerk at the Congressional Budget Office, dived into the icy river to rescue a survivor of the Air Florida crash. Overnight he became a national celebrity, besieged by thousands of letters from admirers, scores of interview requests and more than a dozen invitations from organizations wanting to honor him. To the President, he was a symbol of American heroism...
January 29, 9:40 a.m.--The assistant director of the Science Center reported three telephone answering machines, valued at $549, missing from his office. The machines disappeared overnight. Officers found no signs of forced entry...
...rivals, the shake-up will create both opportunities and challenges aplenty. Virtually overnight, a giant new competitor has loomed up to cast its shadow over their markets. To stay in business, even such multi-billion-dollar corporations as IBM, ITT, RCA and General Telephone & Electronics will have to run harder and innovate faster than they ever have before. Meanwhile, just behind the American companies are Japanese firms like Nippon Electric that are becoming more important every year in the rapidly growing field of high-technology communications...
...industrial suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, seems an unlikely host for Super Bowl XVI. It is the first time in the history of the sports event that the game will move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after all, is Oktoberfest, Mardi Gras...
...sequel, Crisp, 73, starts out to recover the old self painted over by fame and notoriety-to become a virgin again. Here, he shows as much interest in society as sexuality. The English, he says, "want their jobs to be boring so that they can strike." An overnight Americanophile, he finds Los Angeles "a happy Ireland." On a Broadway director: He is the "very model of a modern millionaire; that is to say that he dresses for all occasions like a college student." On gay activists: "Anyone who demands acceptance places himself in the same position as a girl...