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Displaying a passing and running style seldom seen on most playing fields these days, New York Governor Hugh Carey, 61, ditched his statehouse grays for an appearance in the second annual Pumpkin Bowl. The touch-football game pitted the Governor and his staff against reporters for the Albany Times-Union. As back-up quarterback, Carey warmed the bench. But substituting at halfback, he did manage a down or two of wobbly catch and carry. Cheering him on and tucking in his jersey from time to time was his second wife of seven months, Evangeline Gouletas-Carey, 45. Last year...
Detroit complains that the sales slump has been caused primarily by staggering interest rates. Three years ago, it seldom cost more than 1 11% to finance a new car. Today carrying charges run to 18% lacocca told Reagan Administration officials three weeks ago that the industry would continue to be depressed until interest rates dropped to around 15%. Says Harvey Heinbach, a Merrill Lynch auto analyst: "The consumer doesn't want to commit himself to four years of those high car payments when he is uncertain of the outlook for business, for inflation...
...catalogue's descriptive paeans are seldom graphic about the weapons' deadly effects. Usually the language is willfully neutral: one shell that spews out steel pellets is merely "useful to engage massed infantry at close quarters." But peddler's enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews...
...seldom hear of Christians killing heathens," Yao Wei, a fellow at the IOP, said, adding that the book includes examples of American abuse of the Chinese...
...turtle comes equipped with a standard-issue carapace Is there some naturally ordained allotment for human sheltt In 1920 the Russian "sanitary housing norm" decreed that each citizen was entitled to 100 sq. ft. of living space, an expansive ideal seldom achieved. Americans occupy at least 140 sq ft on average; by most of the world's standards, they live like caliphs The current constriction of their housing may make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward...