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...American hucksters panting to sell prefab housing units milled about one day last week waiting for an audience with the general. Somoza's American wife Hope, a striking woman dressed in a red bandanna, print blouse and tight black slacks, directed Red Cross activities from beneath a shade tree. The mood was relaxed and restrained-even though 3,000 Managuans are known to be dead, another 4,000 were buried alive when the earthquake struck, and hundreds lie wounded. More than 120,000 still cling to their shattered homes in Managua despite the absence of water, food and electricity...
...that one of the prognosticators' problems is keeping their predictions optimistic enough. Lately they have had to add a few billion dollars to their output forecasts because 1972 ended with such a whoosh. In fact they have a nagging suspicion that the economy may be accelerating a shade too rapidly, raising some danger that the upsurge could turn into the kind of inflationary blow-off that precedes not exactly a bust but a slump...
Last December Harvard trounced the Quakers, 11-3, but Penn came back later in the winter to shade the Crimson, 3-2, in Cambridge winning in Watson Rink for the first time ever...
...midget has been identified as a Compsognathus corallestris, which, loosely translated from the Greek, means "long-jawed coral dweller." A shade over 15 in. high and only 49 in. long, the tiny reptile had a skeleton similar in construction to those of monster dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus, largest land animal ever to roam the earth. But corallestris hardly seems like a dinosaur at all. Whereas other dinosaurs lived on dry land or in swamps, corallestris made its home on offshore atolls. Like a heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching...
...like to do a musical, and he has been taking singing lessons in London. Beyond that, like many other actors, he wants to be a film director-his own kind of film director. "A director should be a psychoanalyst to the actor," he says. "His function should be to shade points. He has an incredibly subtle job of choosing...