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...reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the '86 edition. Calendars of pinups and pine trees are favorites on everybody's list. The poster-size Sports Illustrated 's Swimsuit Calendar, featuring supermodels in torrid Caribbean settings, is third on Waldenbooks' list. Magnum, p.i. (Landmark) is fourth, offering pictures of Tom Selleck in fuzzy focus and crisp action. The second Ansel Adams Calendar (New York Graphic Society Books) has resonant prints of the master's favorites such as a Cape Cod barn...
...economists, however, doubt that a new slump is likely any time soon. The economy does not now show the signs normally visible just before a recession. Business inventories are generally low, consumers are still spending, and corporations continue to invest. Experts think the economy is simply shifting from the torrid pace of this year's first half to a more sustainable growth rate. Says Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "This is a lull, but not a lull that has come to stay." Concurs Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief...
...moonless night in the Sicilian city of Palermo, a night filled with the sirocco, a torrid, noisy wind that blows in across the Mediterranean from the Sahara, moaning through the city's narrow streets and driving its inhabitants indoors. Few if any residents noticed as squads of armored cars raced through the streets and gun-toting officers cordoned off the city into three sections. Nor, except for the street cleaners, who were just beginning their rounds, did anyone see the law men begin rousing out of their beds and hustling off to jail the men whose names appeared...
While final details of the two union contracts will not be announced until this week, neither apparently involved large wage hikes that could unsettle the recovery. The agreements came at a time when new statistics indicated that the economy was beginning to slow down from the torrid pace of the first half of the year, as most experts have been predicting. The Commerce Department reported last week that according to its preliminary estimates, the gross national product in the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 3.6%, down from 7.1% in the second quarter. In addition, housing starts...
Rumors of an imminent Iranian land offensive have now died away, and it seems unlikely that either country would increase hostilities during the torrid summer...