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...North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had been given advance word in a phone call from Reagan at 9:05 p.m. Sunday. "I looked at my watch because I wanted to know the time in my life when I was most shocked." Helms called the ticket "a coalition with the widest wing span in all history" and said he might fight any Schweiker nomination...
What will the visiting Democrats, including Carter & Co., make of the quick immersion in New York? Despite qualities of surpassing crumminess, the city possesses brilliant energies and a highly developed variety of nearly everything that urban society produces: the world's widest variety of and often its best -restaurants, bookstores, shops, theaters, ballets, jazz clubs, museums. The city is the nation's stage, its bank, its fashion model, the hub of its publishing, advertising and public relations. It is the central nervous system of TV networks, two wire services and two newsmagazines. Despite a serious hemorrhage, it remains...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...
Alone on my widest robe...
...also fed an epidemic of Xeromania. There are 2.3 million copying machines in the U.S., and last year they emitted an estimated 78 billion copies-enough to paper Long Island from shore to shore and, if laid end to end, to girdle the globe 546 times at its widest point. Those numbers are double the figures of five years ago, and are expected to more than double again in five years. Hardly any school or library is without at least one machine, and the Xerox seems to have replaced the water cooler as an office social center. The isolated Havasupai...