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Kosygin also asked to resign from the Politburo; that request will probably be taken up at the next party congress in February. The retiring Premier is believed to have suffered two heart attacks in the past four years, and has long been afflicted by painful circulatory ailments. Kosygin's absences from public view have become more frequent and prolonged. "He has been trying to resign for some time," a family friend explained last week. "He just wanted to rest and fish...
Gourmets of moderate means often scrimp on basic foods like breakfast cereals so that they can splurge on exotica. Jamail's, the premier gourmet store in Houston, offers this kind of shopper a spectrum of choices from Van Camp's pork and beans to shark meat pâté. Moreover, epicurean dining need not be exorbitant. Fine Italian pasta at $2.10 per lb. makes a cheaper meal than American beef tenderloin at about $4 per lb. Says Frank Cloudt, who owns a gourmet grocery in Atlanta: "People would rather have an exquisite beef stew than a mediocre...
...three, who insist they speak only for themselves, reserve their sharpest criticism for the Gang of Four, who controlled the Chinese Government until they were driven from power by current Premier Deng Xiao Ping in 1978. "We hate them. They made the country disunited," Jia says. Lynn, whose letters from her father in Beijing "always tell me things are getting better," also assails the Gang's repressive policies and deceptive practices...
During his undergraduate years at Chicago, Sagan spent some summers breeding fruit flies in the Indiana University laboratory of the famed geneticist Hermann Muller, who won a Nobel Prize for showing that X rays could cause mutations. It was ideal training for an astronomer who would become the premier spokesman for exobiology. He also showed early gifts as a popularizer. He organized a highly successful campus lecture series on science, characteristically including himself as one of the speakers; some faculty members dismissed it as "Sagan's circus," but it drew S.R.O. crowds...
...decline in suburban developments, however, has been paralleled by a growth in downtown shopping centers, which often include restaurants and theaters as well as department stores. Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace has be come a premier tourist attraction, and Baltimore's Harborplace had an estimated 10 million visitors during the first five weeks it was open. In Asheville, N.C., 100 old buildings in the downtown area will be demolished to make room for a new enclosed shopping mall...