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Last year, when the price of gold skyrocketed, leading class-ring companies were ready with nickel, chrome and stainless-steel substitutes. In an attempt to retain some glamour, manufacturers have given the alloys exotic trade names like Ultrium and Siladium. Salesmen now proudly point out that the gold substitutes resist tarnish or dents and will not leave rings around the finger. Says R. Lyman Wood, group vice president of Lenox Inc., an industry leader: "You can drop it or step on it. You can even wear it playing football...
...seen the university expand into neighborhoods that have been struggling to retain a residential character," Preusser said...
...legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow administrative functions. Making it a legislature, he believes, would lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state that might harbor terrorists, whom he described to American Jewish leaders as "two-legged beasts." If Israel does not retain full control over security in the occupied territories, he said, "peace itself would be murdered...
...primary, Jimmy Carter's lead in delegates still looks insurmountable. But the President's aides fret that if Kennedy carries his challenge all the way to the convention in August, his increasingly sharp attacks will undermine Carter among traditionally Democratic voting groups whose support the President must retain to win reelection...
That scene last week illustrated one of the odder paradoxes of this strange political year. Heading into the April 22 Pennsylvania primary that he must win to retain even a long-shot chance for the presidency, Teddy Kennedy has reversed the usual candidate's emotional progress. At the start of the race last fall, when most other politicians would have been brimming with enthusiasm and energy, Kennedy went through the motions of campaigning so ineptly that many observers suspected that his heart was not really in the effort. Now, after a series of bruising defeats that might have broken...