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...Reaganauts are also keeping a close eye on Nevada. With the President's old pal Senator Paul Laxalt retiring after two terms, the White House wants to make sure that the seat remains Republican. Nevada is Reagan country. White- haired, pink-cheeked Republican Contender Jim Santini, a former Democratic Congressman, has made good use of commercials that feature the President saying he needs Santini in the Senate. A shrewd, backslapping veteran pol, Santini has tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against...
...finally landed a job as a prep-school English instructor at Hampden, Me. At night Tabitha put on her hot-pink uniform and went to work at Dunkin' Donuts. When she exited, King turned to the typewriter which was perched on a child's desk. As an adolescent, he had read Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man and other works that were adapted for The Twilight Zone. "The same year," he recalls, "I read Peyton Place and Kings Row. I understood instinctively that both authors were talking about the small-town caste society that I grew up in, the veil...
...dress this summer in Paris, because I wanted to go to Paris and my parents said I couldn't go unless I bought some nice clothing," says one Quincy House junior. Her dark pink dress has puffy sleeves and comes to mid-calf...
Probably for the first time in Harvard's 350-year history, students and shoppers alike were able to leave a lecture hall to the music of David Bowie. If listening to his "Space Oddity" was itself a Harvard oddity, hearing Pink Floyd the Friday afterwards was even more unexpected. "Gotta have some Floyd," Latham was heard saying as he inserted the compact disc...
...fellow African states, Cameroon is well off. As a leading exporter of coffee and cocoa, the California-size land is one of the most economically stable countries on the continent. While much of Africa is hunger plagued, Cameroon (named by Portuguese settlers after the camaroes, or large pink prawns, found in vast quantities off the country's Atlantic coast) has achieved virtual agricultural self-sufficiency...