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...rarely earned a callback during her first seven years in Hollywood, but Patti Davis, 28, is now just about the hottest name in town. The actress, who will be appearing on the Nov. 26 episode of TV's Vega$, has been receiving a hundred offers a day, says her manager Jay Bernstein. "She is as hot as any client I've ever had." And that from the man who handled the sizzling careers of Suzanne Somers and Farrah Fawcett. Davis, nee Reagan, assumed her mother Nancy's maiden name in 1974, she explains, "to have a better...
Government and religious pressure seem to be successful. According to Maritza Flores Vega, a spokesman for the National Ministry of Health, less than 10 per cent of Nicaraguan women use birth control. Why? "Partly because people want children born in 'Free Nicaragua,' and partly because many uneducated women associate contraception with Somoza's forcibly sterilizing thousands of peasant women...
...current generation of American small cars is vastly superior to the Ford Pinto and the Chevrolet Vega. The American public now views the car as they should have years and years ago: as an instrument to get you from one place to another...
...that is changing. In March PBS, NBC and ABC began captioning some of their programs, sending out signals that can be converted into subtitles on specially adapted sets. PBS's Masterpiece Theater is captioned, and so are such shows as ABC's Vega$ and NBC's Real People. Some advertisers, who realize what a vast market they have been missing, are even captioning their commercials...
...both 1959 and 1970, the Big Three introduced new small cars to fight the imports. But successful small models such as the Ford Falcon grew heavier and weighted down with options. Others, such as GM's Corvair and Vega, which were widely criticized for poor engineering, sold badly. The imports rebounded unharmed from both assaults. Sales of imported cars, just 498,785 in 1960, had more than tripled...