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...Doolittle of do-it-yourself is a 35-year-old New Yorker named Spiros Zakas. A highly successful commercial designer and author who recently revamped Chicago's venerable Pump Room, Zakas also teaches at Manhattan's famed Parsons School of Design (wherefrom, nearly 50 years ago, issued the Parsons table). Zakas' book, Furniture in 24 Hours (Macmillan; $10.95), a collection of his own designs and those of his most inventive pupils, has gone through six printings in little over a year. Its 128 pages are a potpourri of practical pieces that range from ad hoc aphrodisiac...
...imported $3.6 billion more from the U.S. than they exported to it in the first nine months of this year. As a result, Europeans are understandably resentful of Washington's feeling that they are somehow or other sponging off U.S. expansion and are particularly wary of calls to pump up their own economies. One consequence of doing so would be not only to deepen their trading deficit with the U.S. but to erode their competitive edge in important "third" markets such as the Middle East...
...table is a phonograph for his four children-ages six, eight, ten and twelve -and Amy Carter to play if they happen to come by in the afternoon. On the turntable last week was a 45 r.p.m. record of a satirical country-and-western song titled I'll Pump the Gas, Jimmy (You Run the Country...
...Premier suddenly fired all but one of his 22 Cabinet ministers, most of whom were political appointees, and named a new team chosen on the basis of merit. A prime goal of the shakeup, Fukuda indicated, was to pump up the domestic economy, which should not only please Japanese consumers and workers but give businessmen more incentive to sell at home rather than abroad. Underscoring Japan's concern about its strained trade relations with the U.S. and Europe, Fukuda also created a new Cabinet post, Minister of External Economic Affairs, and named Nobuhiko Ushiba, 68, a former Ambassador...
Harvard was still clinging to a 62-61 lead after A1 Williams dropped a double-pump jumper for Fordham, but the Rams took the lead for keeps when Lombardi drilled home a ten-foot jumper to make it 63-62 with 4:25 left to play...