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...reports on the rapid recovery of the President from abdominal surgery would have us believe that the luck of the Irish still holds. But his health is not explainable just in terms of luck. We should consider ourselves fortunate indeed to have a man of old-fashioned virtues and moral strength leading our nation. J. Robert Hall Veronia...
...more than half the partnerships in the real estate and oil-and gas-drilling industries were losing propositions, a sure sign that they were being used as tax shelters. States the Treasury report: "The rapid growth in the number of partnerships reporting losses would lack a sound business rationale if it were not for the ability of many taxpayers to use the tax losses ... to shelter other income from taxation." Pickle is now asking the Treasury for another study that will pinpoint the sections of the current tax code that are being abused. "No law has been violated," he says...
People has had difficulty in managing its own rapid growth. Its Newark base, which is more like a giant bus station than an airline terminal, is often uncomfortably congested. In addition, passengers find it frustrating to make reservations by telephone because the lines always seem to be busy. Says Harold Binder, a travel agent at Trade Mark Tours of Miami: "We just can't get through." Some resourceful customers have discovered a solution: stay up past midnight before calling...
...discovery of the AIDS virus came much sooner than anyone could have expected. "We have never made such rapid progress with any disease in the past," says Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services. It was in May 1983 that a French team led by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris first published evidence of a new virus that appeared to play a role in the disease. The following spring, Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he had conclusively identified the AIDS virus and produced it in large quantities...
...There’s a bit of a difference in the sense that the British show is like a miniseries,” Daniels says. He hopes the American “Office” has a longer run of several seasons, so the character development, rapid in the BBC version, will “be a little slower...