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...atmosphere of urgency to patch-up frazzled relations, Israel and America have been anxious to deny the former Intelligence Committee head's statement. This is all too understandable...
...manufacturer would have you imagine Cabbage Patch Kids grown up and gone to seed, but when SherStuff's Bag Lady dolls showed up in Boston, some of that city's hundreds of homeless women were not amused. "The ultimate in vulgarity and poor taste," agreed the Globe. Last week the National Union of the Homeless picketed the company's Los Angeles factory and demanded that the down-and-out dolls be recalled. SherStuff, recognizing the value of free publicity, respectfully declined. The dolls, which sell for $45 and up, mean no offense to the homeless, said Designer Ryan Gourley...
...camp in Arizona. When times are good, the wilderness is shown being minced into salable acreage. Above it all, the sky rings its changes, slate blue in one picture, cornflower in the next, baby's-bottom pink in another. It is the last unspoiled stretch of America, the only patch of nature where the developers cannot get a foothold...
Poor men and poor women now had marketable skills without need of an education. The American dream became a reality as jobs were at last truly available for anyone out of puberty. All of America was happy, except for certain immoral businessmen, such as the Cabbage Patch Doll manufacturers, who were indicted for selling counterfeit babies...
...international crises go, it would be hard to find a more mundane conflict than one about oil-drilling rights in a disputed patch of the Aegean Sea. Yet last week Greece and Turkey came close to blows over just that argument. Athens ordered its military forces on full alert and threatened to forcibly prevent the Turkish research vessel Sismik 1, with an escort of two warships, from conducting petroleum explorations in waters near the Greek islands of Lesbos, Lemnos and Samothrace...