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DIED. James A. Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...
...whether such expenditures are worthwhile. They also challenge the role of the Federal Government in favoring or heavily funding any particular method of instruction, much less sponsoring cultural-maintenance studies. "The intent of bilingual education has been distorted into a vehicle for a bicultural approach to education," says Robert Sweet, a member of the White House Office of Policy Development...
...Miami's Calle Ocho district, open-air markets sell plantains, mangoes and boniatos (sweet potatoes); old men play excitedly at dominoes in the main park. Little but Spanish is heard on the streets and indeed in many offices and shops. A Hispanic in need of a haircut, a pair of eyeglasses or legal advice can visit a Spanish-speaking barber, optometrist or lawyer. In the barrios of Los Angeles, an Argentine can watch the latest movies from his homeland at any of a dozen theaters, while a Guatemalan can find a soccer league composed entirely of players from the country...
Ralph: One vote here for prurience, my sweet. Who wants to watch death- dealing hurricanes when you can switch to radio and hear Debbie from Manitoba describing her low clitoral sensitivity? How can soccer riots compare with Rosalie of Omaha asking Dr. Ruth which porno films to flash on the ceiling while locked in the clumsy embrace of Husband Bob, the rapid-fire mortician...
...listeners to "Go for it!" -- with contraceptives, of course. I would then startle my rapt audience by revealing that sex is nothing to be ashamed of, and in fact may even be a natural part of life. Then, as a finale, I would beam at my audience, looking sweet while talking dirty. What do you think, my partner in bed as well as life...