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...cosmopolitan character of the small city (pop. 46,929) at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains-it even sports a symphony orchestra-is testimony to the singular success of South Carolina's drive to lure foreign investment. The state has attracted foreign factories worth about $1.7 billion, and some 40% of this investment is located in Spartanburg. Hoechst, Germany's chemical giant, operates a $300 million fiber plant there; Switzerland's Sulzer makes textile machinery, as does Italy's Pignone, and within a year Michelin will open a $100 million truck tire factory near...
...loneliness. With Arthur Miller, it is the nagging quest for justice. With Tennessee Williams, it is the poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...
...fixed Carew's salary at $120,000. The incident hurt Carew's pride more than his pocketbook, and the following season, he punched out 14 home runs just to show that he could reach the fences. This year he should drive in more than 100 runs, a singular feat for a hitter of singles. Carew also now leads the league in triples -with 14-and his slugging percentage of .619 is tops in the majors...
...spent most of their lives abroad While the public enjoys upstairs-downstairs capers, most critics view money and manners as intellectually déclassé. Members of the top crust do not match the nation's heroic ideal: the rebellious romantic who spurns corrupting society to hunt his singular salvation in wild nature...
...afternoon the 39th President, Jimmy Carter, had reclaimed his rightful share of attention by calling an outspoken general back from Korea, setting a new arms-sales policy, dismissing Nixon's singular view of a President's power and asking one of his old opponents in the scramble to reach the White House, Scoop Jackson, to come around with his wife and kids that night for quail, okra and a fancy pudding...