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...Kremlin's propaganda heavies did have their moments until a hundred-pound dissident, Irina Grivnina, only three weeks out of the Soviet Union, took them head on in one of freedom's forums, the press conference. Not used to such tumult, the Soviets stomped off the stage in anger while a scornful world watched. The Jesse Jackson score was evened by another determined woman, Avital Shcharansky, the hauntingly beautiful wife of Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, still held in a Soviet prison after eight years. Bella Abzug, the American liberal agitator, was met on Geneva's free streets by Phyllis Schlafly...
MOST IRRESISTIBLE CALORIC BINGE Not to be confused with the soap of the same name, the DoveBar is old news in Chicago but attained stardom in supermarkets and on street corners around the country in '85. The hard-to-handle quarter-pound ice-cream bar has a crackling coating of dark chocolate candy. Invented in the early 1950s by Chicago Confectioner Leo Stefanos, this frozen dessert melts all resistance even at prices that range from...
...Span-America Medical Systems, a South Carolina manufacturer of foam pads for hospital beds whose shares jumped from 3 1/8 to 22¾. Also among the highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20½ to 62¾; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10¼ to 27½. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from 1 1/8 to 6 7/8. TAKEOVER BATTLES Union Carbide...
...exports and investment, should lead to 3% growth this year. Inflation is expected to fall to about 3.8% by the end of the year. Unemployment is 13%, but it is likely to fall slightly. Brittan noted that declining oil prices are reducing British revenues and putting pressure on the pound. He predicted that the government would raise interest rates, if necessary, to maintain the value of the currency...
...using and selling cocaine on the site, and 29 GM employees among those apprehended were fired. That capped a nine-month investigation by local police at the company's request, during which undercover agents purchased large amounts of marijuana and cocaine. On Jan. 2, the agents bought half a pound of coke for $14,000. Said Detective Nels Munson: "That's when we knew we had to move...