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...ALMOST THREE-QUARTERS of the high school seniors who want to accept Harvard's invitation to join the company of educatable men and women, there is a slight moment of hesitation before the RSVP. $10,000--probably more--and for only one year, Mom, Dad, and Johnny consider the mortgage, soaring energy costs, insurance, medical bills, food prices. Finally, Johnny ventures an "Are you sure we can afford it?" Dad looks at Mom, puts his hand on the young genius's shoulder and says gravely, "We'll have to tighten our belts a bit, son; but somehow we'll find...
...campaign became more heated, the two candidates dueled last week for Texas' 26 crucial electoral votes. Polls show the race to be close, with Reagan holding a slight edge. Carter barely won Texas in 1976, even with 87% of the Mexican-American vote. Since then, the state's Hispanic population has increased to 18% of the total, and Carter's first stop, logically, was before a largely Spanish-speaking audience in Corpus Christi...
...vinyl body suits and bootees and hard hats. Wearing a respirator was a new experience for Chicago-based Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who went to dump sites in six states. Says she: "Breathing through those things is hard labor And even with one, sharp fumes cut through to create a slight burning in your throat." Mandatory rubber gloves made reporters' notes look more like toddlers' scrawls...
Tiltmeters on the mountain's north rim were showing a slight but growing deformation similar-but on a much smaller scale-to the bulge on the peak's north face before the May explosion. Scientists were not sure if it was caused by a swelling on the rim or the settling of material on the floor of the crater. Inside the crater a lava dome has been forming. It glows red as molten rock roils underneath its hardened crust. The questions: Will it be able to cap the volcano? Or will pent-up gases blast through again...
...around in them a little. Studs Terkel used the McPhee occupation-centered approach in his voluminous book Working; though he stuck religiously to his tape recordings, he managed, with his questions and with the inflections of an interviewer who understands, to draw out far more of the pain and slight glory of the work-a-day world...