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...intruder delivered an unintelligible harangue. When Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub Khan failed to appear, the stranger asked the Secret Service to broadcast his demand for a meeting. The guards complied, and the man listened to the message on his car radio. Then he plucked a white cloth from his pocket and waved it in the air in surrender. The guards found that he was carrying no explosives, only emergency flares...
Sales have been softest in such big-ticket items as major appliances and furniture. Less expensive, practical items like do-it-yourself auto tune-up kits and pocket calculators (which can now be bought for under $20) have been selling well. So, in general, have basic clothes -especially sweaters-although one executive at Baltimore's Hutzler Bros, notes that "the whole men's area is sick. The old man is the first one cut off the Christmas list...
...came here eight years ago with $200 in my pocket, a small child in my arms, wondering if I had any future at all," recalled Australian-born Singer Helen Reddy, 33. Now a top-ranking female pop vocalist in the U.S. and composer of the rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman, Reddy last week joined ranks with her American fans by becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. With Bronx-born Husband-Manager Jeff Wald at her side, Reddy took the oath of allegiance in Los Angeles, then wept happily on the shoulder of Mayor Tom Bradley, who witnessed the ceremony. "This...
...hapless Fredo), a crew of film editors and a contingent of buddies watched a packed house respond enthusiastically. But the assembled loyalists all knew the film was seriously flawed; the last hour seemed jumbled, confused, cold. All during the showing Coppola muttered notes to himself into a pocket tape recorder. Some scenes needed lengthening, others were dropped. The idea of an intermission was scrapped...
...Technology likes to perform its tricks onstage and its real miracles in the dressing room. Christmas shoppers are happily aware that pocket calculators are now about one-third of last year's price and that before long, transistors and printed circuitry will provide TV sets so thin and flat that we will be able to hang them on the wall like engravings. Of far greater and subtler potential are discoveries that do not immediately reach the consumer. The maligned space program, for instance, has produced satellites and observatories that can survey a nation's military potential. Such hardware...