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...elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding output by a modest 1 % while keeping up the fight against inflation, now down to 7.4% from 27% four years ago. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing promised to pep up the French economy a bit by more government spending, doubling the nation's deficit to $4.4 billion this year...
...lacocca thought he had a better idea. An eager young sales manager in the 1950s, he figured he would pep up a dull convention of 1,100 Ford salesmen by proving in a live demonstration that if he dropped an egg from a 10-ft-high ladder onto Ford's new crash-padded dashboard, the egg would not break. He was wrong. Until last week, that was one of the very few times that lacocca came close to having egg on his face. After 32 years with Ford, the plain-spoken son of an Italian immigrant was a Horatio...
...Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, as Cuba's auxiliary political watchdog apparatus is called, are working six days a week to spruce up the capital for what promises to be a giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention in Africa. "We must be reminded from time to time that keeping our own revolution alive does not mean just study and consolidation," says Jesús Sais...
...pep rally is in a Chicago ghetto school; the cheerleader is none other than the Rev. Jesse Jackson (he was ordained as a Baptist minister). His style is a combination of razzle-dazzle and Southern revival meeting. But the message is a very basic version of the old Protestant work ethic: work hard and aim high. In corridors where punks push dope, Jackson pushes hope. Project EXCEL, a tough self-help regimen for students and parents alike, which reached 21 schools in Chicago, Los Angeles and Kansas City during this past school year, is turning the old ghetto battle...
...pep talk was convincing. Last year Irion was the bulwark of Sanders' squad. He led the Crimson in both scoring and rebounding. As he recalls, "I was tenth in the Ivies in scoring, seventh in rebounding, fifth in field goal average, and last in assists...