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DESCRIPTION: Three charts on moving truck: Weekly closings for Dow Jones Industrials, from January 3, 1986 to May 15, 1987; Economic growth, percent changes in real GNP at annual rates from 1986 to 1st quarter of 1987; and percent of civilian labor force unemployment for the same period. Three additional charts shown as potholes are labeled U.S. DOLLAR as indexed against ten currencies from January 1986 to May 1-15, 1987; INTEREST RATES, percent per year on 30-year Treasury bonds from July 1986 to May 1-15, 1987; and INFLATION, percent change in CPI at annual rates from...
Imagine chowing down cheesecake, feasting on French fries and pigging out on potato chips with little worry about calories. This fat-filled fantasy is still just an overeater's dream, but it moved closer to reality this month when Procter & Gamble dispatched a truck from its Cincinnati headquarters to the Food and Drug Administration in Washington. Its carefully guarded cargo: 30,000 pages of documents detailing tests of a new cholesterol- and calorie- free fat substitute that P&G calls olestra. The shipment included a petition asking the FDA to consider approving the substance's use in deep- fried foods...
Over the years the repertory builds, becoming more varied and more lyrical; State Department tours replace the bus-and-truck forays. At home Taylor's life becomes intertwined with that of a deaf-mute, George Wilson, whom he befriended in the '50s and who stays on, living nearby and helping out. About a few matters Taylor can be irritatingly coy, and one of them is sex. As a youth he could not decide whether he favored males or females ("Let's just say that I preferred to be on top"), so he sought out Graham for counsel. She told...
...bloodshed began when a hand grenade came sailing out of the back of a truck as it sped past a police parade ground in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg. The blast killed one black trainee and wounded 64 others. Six hours later, a bomb exploded under a parked car in the white suburb of Mayfair, shattering windows and starting a fire...
...terrible sweeps that took place later on, innocent victims were sentenced to long terms in labor camps or, in many cases, shot. The Siberian exile that the author endured was mild by comparison. After his three-year sentence, Rybakov drifted from village to village, taking jobs as varied as truck driver and ballroom dance instructor. He never stayed at one place more than a few months because his record as an "Article 58er" made him vulnerable to rearrest by authorities and to a prison-camp sentence...