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Carlton struggled through the Astros' seventh, allowing two hits. A neat pickoff throw by catcher Bob Boone short-circuited the Houston rally and then, in the bottom of the seventh, Phillies Manager Dallas Green lifted his top starter for a pinch-hitter...
Zydeco, Chenier's musical style, sounds initially like rhythm and blues, mostly New Orleans with a pinch of primitive Chicago. Sometimes the saxophones break honkingly loose, sometimes they lay in one foghorn-like riff through an entire song. But the real musical underlay is Cajun, a musical cross-fertilization of Acadian immigrants driven from Nova Scotia by the British and Africans brought to rural Louisiana by slavery. Which explains both Zydeco's compelling rhythmic patterns and the fact that several of Chenier's numbers are sung in Cajun French...
...made, profits are going down. Says Thomas Langenfeld of Minneapolis' Dayton Hudson chain: "Customers are responding mostly to clear-cut value and reductions. A substantial part of our sales is being achieved by cutting prices. Profits are being squeezed." Almost all the large chains are feeling the profits pinch. Industry Analyst Stuart Robbins of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins expects second-quarter earnings for twelve of the biggest retailers to decline by an average 25% to 30%. Last week J.C. Penney Co. announced that profits for April through June were down 69%, to a negligible $5 million on sales...
...fare includes steaks, omelets and salads. Come the holocaust, though, Deur's village clientele will be treated to a repast of freeze-dried haricots verts, vacuum-packed charcuterie and as much French wine as survives the first blast. The dining room ordinarily seats 30, but in a nuclear pinch the tables can be squeezed to accommodate...
...when Dutch stood there the other night in his Eastern Establishment dark suit, giving a speech that could have been written by a Democrat and invoking the ghost of F.D.R. in the name of the Republican Party, some of us had to pinch ourselves...