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The Harris organization, which polled throughout the weekend and on Monday, showed Reagan gaining points right up to Election Day. By Monday night, according to Harris Executive Vice President David Neft, an unpublished Harris survey had Reagan six points ahead of Carter. Others picked up the trend too, and Wirthlin...
A different kettle of poissons, drawn from dozens of national cuisines, is Ruth A. Spear's Cooking Fish and Shellfish (Doubleday; $16.95). The theme of her book is "taking fish seriously," which steak-and-tater Yankees seldom do, even on the seacoasts. Americans are blessed with a biblical abundance...
And that, indeed, is what makes it all the more terrifying. One is compelled to watch this sympathetic character turn into a killer; and yet one suddenly realizes the extent of the evil. The director does not, as in so many American movies, simply scare the audience. Unlike Straw Dogs...
The rest of the New York Stock Exchange, though, had its own case of war jitters. Last Monday, before the full dimension of the Iran-Iraq conflict was clear, the Dow Jones industrial average hit a 44-month high of 974.57. It was mostly downhill after that. By Friday, the...
Following coach Pappy Hunt's strategy, harrier stars Kristen Linsley and Darlene Beckford jumped out to an early lead, spent the remainder of the race widening it, and showed up alone at the finish line, 100 yards ahead of their nearest competitor. Linsley won the meet in 17:22, an...