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...started with this whorehouse over by La Grange-lil town, sleepy as a ole hound in the August sun, 'bout halfway 'tween Austin and Houston. The place was listed in the tax books as Edna's Ranch Boarding House, but everybody called it the Chicken Ranch. Well sir for sump'n like 80 years the Chicken Ranch was a place a man could call home whenever he needed to get outta his own house. Cowboys, cotton pickers, state senators, the Texas A&M football team, your more adventurous visiting clergy-they all come to Edna...
...into the machine, but Robot-Coupe offers models with slightly more powerful motors. Culinary experts are divided in their loyalties, and many agree with Russell Reitz, manager of Cook's Mart in Chicago, which offers its customers both: "There is virtually no difference in performance or price be tween the two processors." With the gour met grinders, as in so many aspects of cooking, it is chacun à son goût: each to his own taste...
...poets' purpose amid all this car nage and chaos is noble: "Giving new force to the last remaining bond be tween all Germans, namely, the German language they held in common." Their behavior quickly proves unworthy of their unifying ideal. They begin by squabbling over the proper use of dactylic words. They fall into grim dispute "over the essence of irony and of humor." Thunderous abuse follows the reading of each manuscript. Worst of all, these noble spirits find themselves implicated in the cruelty of their age; the feast mysteriously provided them by Gelnhausen, a dashing young member...
...Membership is limited to chief executives from 100 firms that have annual sales be tween $20 million and $1 billion and have expanded by at least 15% in each of the past five years.) ABC is lobbying for a sharp reduction in the capital gains tax, which would stimulate investment in rapidly growing companies. The members also strongly oppose federal aid to ailing industries. Says Arthur Levitt Jr., chairman of the American Stock Exchange and ABC's founder: "I believe in economic Darwinism, a system that permits win ners to win and losers to lose...
...weeks ahead, Carter will step up his attack on Reagan's economic plan and try to brand him as antilabor and against women's rights. But the President's best bet may well lie in events be yond his control. As long as the war be tween Iraq and Iran continues, his ratings are likely to improve whatever he does. Says Jim Baker: "Carter can respond to events, and that helps him." Reagan and George Bush, on the other hand, could do little more than accept an Administration invitation to be briefed...