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...Benton Harbor, Mich., the Whirlpool Corp. uses a staff of telephone-trained technicians to field questions from customers around the country about problems with its line of home appliances. In Fort Washington, Pa., the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. employs a battery of researchers to handle 800-number telephone queries from parents on a variety of child health-care matters. In Hawthorne, Calif., the Mattel toy company maintains a staff of telephone representatives to advise customers on the operation of the company's toys.and electronic games. In Whippany, N.J., Channel Home Centers, a 91-store hardware chain, offers home repair...
...domino theory. Because the Sandinistas proposed Marxist reforms, the Administration reasoned, they were automatically part of the mysterious and sinister Soviet-Cuban network of international terrorism and revolution. The moment a Marxist government gained control of Nicaragua, the analysis continued, the Soviets had successfully stirred up a new whirlpool of undemocratic instability, slowly but steadily pulling neighboring countries into an ever-growing chasm. Once Reagan saw Nicaragua as a member of the global communist monolith. U.S. policy became little more than our attempt to prevent Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev from getting the maniacal last laugh...
...daily jog, White is surrounded by a $61,000 mechanical sculpture garden of chrome, leather and cable: stationary bicycles, cross-country skiing simulators, rowing machines, Nautilus weight stations and racks of dumbbells positioned around the spacious, brown-carpeted gym. Down a hallway hung with modern paintings are whirlpool baths and a sunning room studded with ultraviolet and infra-red lamps. Near by: offices for a physician and a full-time exercise physiologist...
...plunge. My stomach did the opposite, rising inside me as though I was hurtling earthward at a 55-degree angle. I looked away. But morbid curiosity got the better of me, and I followed the train. It rose; it dipped; it soared; it whipped--spinning finally into a whirlpool of track to the base...
...blank stage of the reporter's mind, nothing is everything. He is not alone. The imaginative playgoer, who has assisted throughout in peopling this surreal mindscape, thus implicates himself in the reporter's disintegration. The successive circles of hell blend and accelerate into a whirlpool of familiar, frightening apparitions. The Viet Nam nightmare is alive and well. "That story" is everyone's. -By Richard Corliss