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North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.: "We live in a time when the characteristic values of the West are collapsing, disintegrating, decomposing. This is hardly surprising be cause these values have fallen victims to neglect and indifference on the part of those who have most benefited from them, and of assault and battery on the part of those who should be their staunchest defenders. That is why I presume to ask you on this very special day to consider the proposition that we become part of what we condone. In this regard, much...
...chillingly candid discussion of nuclear options mean that the U.S. thinks a nuclear war is winnable? "This notion has no place in our strategy," insisted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Said he: "We see nuclear weapons only as a way of discouraging the Soviets from thinking that they could ever resort to them. That is exactly why we must have a capability for a protracted response-to demonstrate that our strategic forces could survive Soviet strikes over an extended period...
...being in such a harsh business and around such hard men, most boxers are incongruously gentle, including Larry Holmes. He is a child of both Cuthbert, Ga., and Easton, Pa. The seventh of Flossie Holmes' dozen children, he grew up lisping when he talked and lashing out when he was frustrated. One of his strongest motivations for not losing is the thought of the schoolyard taunting that he fears would await his children. He left school in the seventh grade, the year his father, a manual laborer, left home. Holmes laments his lack of education. In a dream...
...Benton Harbor, Mich., the Whirlpool Corp. uses a staff of telephone-trained technicians to field questions from customers around the country about problems with its line of home appliances. In Fort Washington, Pa., the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. employs a battery of researchers to handle 800-number telephone queries from parents on a variety of child health-care matters. In Hawthorne, Calif., the Mattel toy company maintains a staff of telephone representatives to advise customers on the operation of the company's toys.and electronic games. In Whippany, N.J., Channel Home Centers, a 91-store hardware chain, offers home repair...
INJURED. Aileen Quinn, 10, freckle-faced star of the movie Annie; with a broken left arm, after falling off her bicycle while riding around near home; in Yardley, Pa. Although released from the hospital after four days, she had to cancel a three-week promotional tour...