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...Vegas Hilton one floor, with two more planned for later this year. Last month Denver's popular Cafe Giovanni banned puffing entirely in its dining room; so far only one group of patrons has walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party at which she was forced to sneak a puff...
Landing a job at the new Mazda auto plant in Flat Rock, Mich., will be something like getting into an Ivy League college, only tougher. About 130,000 workers have applied for 3,100 production slots at the Japanese company's first U.S. factory, which will open in 1987. Applicants first had to present their qualifications by mail. Selected job seekers will now undergo in person an unusually exhaustive battery of tests that will rate their reading, verbal, mechanical and problem-solving skills. They will also be tested for the presence of drugs in their systems...
Amplifying remarks he made Thursday at a Boston AIDS conference, in which he called for mandatory testing of those in high risk groups, professor of Medicine Arnold S. Relman said: "Suppose 10 years from now we have half a million AIDS cases, then tougher measures will be necessary...
Once off the pedestal, Reynolds could create memorable types. Nowhere in English art is there a sweeter, tougher demimondaine than his Mrs. Abington, reflectively sucking her thumb whilst sizing up the audience with a level look annealed by years of prostitution before her stardom as a comic actress. And it would be difficult to imagine a more sympathic portrait of a minor writer than his study of Giuseppe Baretti, shortsightedly scrutinizing a book inches from his eye with the greed of a man devouring an orange. In Reynolds' intimate portraits, the aura of classical make-believe becomes an ironical virtue...
...waste time ripping apart a car to find contraband. They now wield high-tech instruments, including fiber-optic devices for examining the interiors of gas tanks and ultrasonic range finders to determine whether hollow panels really are empty. Last week the San Diego district began a policy of tougher inspections that had cars backed up for more than a mile...