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...naturalized British subject, Cummings lives with his Swiss wife Irma in Monte Carlo (twin daughters, 19, are U.S. undergraduates) and their life is not ostentatious. Unremarkable, too, Cummings claims, is his business: "Like any other trade," he says. "We don't sell anything without official British or American export licenses. I am not a gun runner." Cummings regrets the U.S. ban on arms sales to Iran ("lost business...
...customers say they feel better, walk better, talk better," reports Sally Baker, who owns Chicago's Futon Studio. Boston's Shinera Futon Mattress Inc. sells 75,000 units yearly at about $95 for one of twin size covered in a standard fabric. To emphasize the comfort dimension, some new futons come with a core of foam rubber, which seems to disturb at least a few futon purists. Not to worry, soothes Emily Kossowsky of Boston's New Moon Futon Co. Says she: "We stress that the foam is surrounded by cotton...
...squabble between Regan and Volcker is merely symptomatic of the disagreements that have been simmering for months among Reagan's economic advisers. From the beginning, critics of the Administration have complained that Reaganomics is riddled with contradictions. They predicted that the President's twin offensives, stimulating the economy by slashing taxes and braking inflation through tight money, would result in continued high interest rates and sluggish growth. The supply-siders and monetarists in the Administration kept an uneasy peace as the White House marshaled its forces to push Reagan's economic program through Congress last summer...
...German romantic traditions. It would also include Debussy's Petteas et Melisande, the French composer's 1902 masterpiece of Gallic allusion and understatement; Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, the most important work to enter the international repertory since World War II; and Alban Berg's twin monuments - Wozzeck, the seminal opera of our time, and Lulu, the apotheosis of the twelve-tone system...
...feels glum over the prospect of another abortion, her sixth. She would like to have the baby and marry Diego, her Cuban lover, but doing so would cause her father to revoke the TWA pass that she uses to jet wherever her spirit moves her. Kirk, Jeffrey's twin brother, is taking parachute lessons in preparation for a photojournalistic assignment in Antarctica. The world, apparently, is ready to go to war over the natural resources under the South Pole...