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...ironically a subscription ad for Football News weekly which offers the same magazines. "Call NANCY in our Circulation Department," the ad says, referring to an alluring bare-shouldered woman's photograph set apart from the ad's copy. According to Nancy's replacement at the other end of toll-free line, Nancy "hasn't worked here for some time. And also according to the faceless female voice, Nancy left no forwarding address, even for the purpose of a discussion about football magazines and the Super Bowl...
...recommended that the 1983 state legislature raise the drinking age from 19 to 21. Said Department of Public Safety Director Jim Adams: "It's almost a Texas heritage to be able to drive down the highway with a beer in your hand. But we have an intolerable death toll...
More than 1,000 police and firemen battled the blaze for three days before bringing it under control. The toll: at least 145 dead, including 43 firemen, and 500 injured. Damage may run as high as $4 million. In Caracas, which depends on the plant for 50% of its electricity, Christmas lights were dimmed and elevator use was curtailed. President Luis Herrera Campins maintained a roundthe-clock vigil, and on the country's beaches where holiday crowds traditionally revel, somber Venezuelans respected a three-day mourning period by singing public funeral Masses...
...short, a year of mind-boggling contrasts. More than anything else, 1982 was the year when the three-year-old inflation-fighting policy of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the nation's top central banker, finally paid off, but only while exacting a painful economic toll in the process...
...Finally Meets His Match Feverish competition takes its toll on video-game stocks...