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Miraculous testimonies abounded on Richard Roberts' swing through Wisconsin. It was impossible to discern which people might have been cured and which were subject only to passing psychological relief. Some could even have sworn to have been made well, hoping that a taped segment of the event would make Oral's television show. Like all Christian faith healers, Richard attributes any cures to God's power, not his own, and says of his role: "If they say they are healed, no matter what you or anybody else thinks, you sure can't deny...
...summer-school class in Farragut, Tenn. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury," he read from a crib sheet, "signifying nothing." It was all part of Ronald Reagan's continuing crusade for stricter standards in the nation's schools, on a swing through Tennessee and New Mexico last week. In turn, his prospective Democratic rivals for the presidency charged that his speeches were mere sound and fury. "Everywhere he goes he's now a friend of education," scoffed Walter Mondale, who claimed Reagan had waited 20 years to support public education...
WEST GERMANY: "The upswing that had been talked about so much has started to the extent that the up is there, but the swing is still missing," said West Germany's Giersch. The consensus among forecasters, Giersch said, was for 2.25% growth this year, with inflation falling to 3%. Unemployment is likely to stay at 9% to 9.5% in 1983, and Giersch saw little improvement in that trend next year. He anticipated that the country's healthy current-accounts surplus, which is expected to total $4 billion this year, will remain near that level for at least...
...dozen. According to Charlie Lau, distinguished batting theorist of the White Sox, Kittle has yet to hit a home run that is merely a home run. "They're all emphatically home runs," Lau says emphatically. "Ron is strong, but he doesn't 'muscle' the swing. It's rhythmic, natural. In his mind, I think he's just so sure he can hit, the pitchers can strike him out, make him look foolish, and there's still that trace of a smile. He knows he's going to get them." Tony LaRussa...
Like any other person in public life, Volcker has his detractors. He has been faulted for going along with Carter's disastrous fling with credit controls in early 1980 and for sometimes permitting the money supply to swing wildly. Asserts Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, who maintains that steady and predictable money growth is the key to economic health: "There has been more volatility in the money supply in the past three years than in any previous three-year period...