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...become a retirement community. The house, now employed as guest quarters for the residents' progeny-those who care to call-occupies the middle ground. It is a serene setup. What is more, the care is so fine that the death rate is remarkably low-so low the administrators reckon that today's applicant for admission will have to wait eight to ten years (by which time the point may have been lost...
When the Environmental Protection Agency two years ago took steps to cut the amount of lead used in gasoline, it failed to reckon with the orneriness of American motorists. Car owners have been illegally filling an estimated 13% of the no-lead vehicles on the road with leaded gas, which costs an average of 7? per gal. less than the unleaded variety. Last week the EPA fought back. It proposed rules that would slash the amount of lead in leaded gasoline by 91%, starting...
...other forces to reckon with will be defending national champion Washington and Princeton. The Tigers snagged fourth at the Sprints, three seconds back from Radcliffe...
...Nicer? Oh, I probably am," concedes the sergeant. "But I'm not missioned to get a lot of women, so I don't go out of my way to get them." Yet his wife Linda swears that he eyes women on the street only to reckon their Army qualifications: a passing teen-ager looks to be about 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lbs.-a tad too chunky. "Guys, in essence, can be little butterballs," says Yasenak, who is perfectly lean...
They did not, however, reckon with the nerve of the rotund, mustachioed man who suddenly appeared among the bystanders watching the parade only 200 yards from the official reviewing stand. Before security forces could decide how to react, he deftly slipped between the ranks of marching workers, accompanied by a phalanx of his followers. Then, as the local Communist Party leader and the police chief of Gdansk looked down from the tribunal in stunned disbelief, the cocky interloper flashed a V-for-victory sign. A visiting Soviet party leader failed to recognize him and returned his salute with a cheery...