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...Stan Parris (R-Va.), the new ranking Republican on the District Committee, exhibited this increasingly hostile attitude, when he warned that any action by city officials protesting the Congressional action would be met with heavy-handed resistance. "We gave it [home rule], and we can take it away," Parris threatened...
...lances in a Feelies spur group called Yung Wu and holds down a part-time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this spring, and Bass Player Brenda Sauter, 29, does free-lance photography jobs. The band is going on its most extensive tour in October, and Sauter has promised herself that life will be only music from then on. The Feelies...
Despite the subsidies, many businessmen who bought minor-league teams back in the mid-1970s had a hard time turning profits. Recalls Stan Naccarato, president of the Tacoma Tigers: "Some of those owners couldn't sell $10 bills for a dime." They were happy just to kick the dirt in the dugout and scout the next Nolan Ryan...
...edges of East Los Angeles, appetizers include grilled marinated octopus and onion on corn tortillas, followed by such entrees as baked marinated milk-fed kid with ancho and arbol chili, or seasoned shrimp cooked in a stew of capers, olives and tomatoes. Says Tamayo's managing partner, Stan Kandel: "We've had people coming in saying, 'Where's the Mexican food, where are the burritos?' " There were, he admits, a few concessions to Anglo tastes. "We were very conscious of the spicing, that it not be too hot for some palates...
Anthropologist Stan Binstead is en route from New England to the African bush to search for a lion-worshiping cult. In London a friend dismisses the sect as "just an old-fashioned protection racket." Stan insists it could be the start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed...