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...EDWARD TELLER, "father" of the hydrogen bomb and a Reagan Administration science adviser: I hope [the nuclear-freeze movement] will not become an important force. I hope more sense will prevail. If the nuclear freeze goes through, this country won't exist in 1990. The Soviet Union is a country that has had totalitarian rule for many hundreds of years, and what a relatively small ruling class there might do can be very different from what a democratic country can decide to do. The rulers in the Kremlin are as eager as Hitler was to get power over...
That makes the outlook doubly grim for retailers. Third-quarter profits for some of them were way down because of the accelerating economic slide. Los Angeles-based Carter Hawley Hale Stores, for example, showed an earnings slump of 35%, and profits at Allied Stores, which owns Bonwit Teller, declined 36%. These and other retailers look to Christmas for 25% of their annual sales and 35%, even 45%, of their yearly earnings...
...uncommon in South Florida to see a stream of young people come up to a teller and count out just under $10,000 from overstuffed shopping bags for deposit. The major operators, who find this too cumbersome, have initiated a reverse airlift, sometimes using the same planes that fly drugs into Florida to take suitcases of cash out of the U.S. to discreet banks in places like the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands. Other dealers simply pay a commission, $ 10,000 a week or so, to the dwindling number of Florida bankers willing to fudge or forget their transfer reports...
Special provisions for special interests must be included if we wish to fashion a republican government that will work fairly for all, not in some fortune-teller's vision of a future perfect world, but in our imperfect world today...
Perhaps the only disheartening aspect of the summer entertainment scene has been the apparent retirement of Brother Blue, a legendary singer of songs and teller of tall tales. After a few appearances early in the season, he all but dropped out of sight. Wherever he is, however, he's probably pleased that so many have followed his example in bringing life to the city's street corners...