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...Argentina's totalitarian armor President Raul Alfonsin's government, succeeding a brutal military regime, offers many Argentines what it ought to offer the Reagan Administration a chance to make a Latin American nation survive and prosper And, perhaps more importantly for the U.S. Alfonsin has given the Administration a plum chance to put its money where its mouth to really work for liberty and justice...
WHEN the half-gnawed bagel covered with plum Gerber baby food dropped to the floor for the third time, I knew it would be a battle of wills, so I put the bagel back on the tray I can't believe I could take my struggles with a toothless, plum-splotched seven-month-old baby seriously. But it was seven in the morning, the baby had been up for an hour and was hungry; five minutes earlier I had been sleeping soundly, and I had six more hours of "babysitting" until I had to go to work...
...hanging her laundry (Yugoslav dry cleaning, it flutters everywhere) appears the next moment in a beautiful red dress to offer coffee and slivovitz. Boots are left on the stoop, and slippers wait inside the door. Her brother-in-law, a more or less symmetrical giant named Momo, pours the plum marvelous drink while a child grinds
...Inside it says only, "We've narrowed the field." But we heard just last night, and we think it just keen That he's picked Lech Walesa as Faculty Dean. To Henry Rosovsky, some fruit salad's come: His Core's found in apples; his new chair's a plum. Hugh Culkins--we bring a Hey Hey and Ho Ho. Just one more reminder: That's stock's got to go. To veep Robin Schmidt and George Putnam as well On Mass Hall's behalf we'll just bid you farewell. Here's a rest cure in case any arteries...
Ueberroth, 45, former head of First Travel Corp., one of the largest U.S. travel companies, has been churning out strategies for solvency ever since he assumed the L.A.O.O.C. presidency in 1979. To create start-up money, Ueberroth squeezed the biggest plum he had: TV rights. Five interested bidders, including the three major networks, were each required to put up a $750,000 deposit, refundable later without interest. "We had no funds, no office, no telephone," says Ueberroth, whose staff will swell from 425 currently to 35,000 by next July. "We needed an income source." The winner, ABC, will ante...