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...Since returning home to Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter, famed fly-fisher, softballer and jogger, has been honing his skills at yet another avocation. Using the tools presented to him by his Cabinet members, he has already completed a table for his office. Last week Carter came out of the woodwork to visit Princeton University, where he hammered away at "the lethargy of Congress and the irresponsibility of the American press...
...reassuring promises that Chrysler can remain an independent automobile manufacturer. Instead, the latest negotiations stressed the need to make the nearly insolvent company a more attractive candidate for partnership or takeover. Company Chairman Lee Iacocca called the agreement a "super deal" that could bring "several suitors out of the woodwork...
...When we first started playing rock, it was a sea of white faces watching us," recalls Brian; "then, slowly, blacks started coming out of the woodwork. We know there are more black rock and roll groups out there...
...Smithsonian's puppet exhibit opening in June. Dimwitted Snerd and spry old Klinker will return to California once the show ends on Labor Day, but in keeping with the late ventriloquist's wishes, Charlie McCarthy will remain at the Smithsonian to become part of the treasured woodwork...
...think that these issues are going to become more central: one, because people are becoming more concerned with productivity; and, two, because there are enough idealistic managers and engineers who will come out of the woodwork when they see that this is actually profitable and economic. They're not courageous enough to fight for this on the basis of ideals, when it's a matter of having to prove a point, but they are when there are models, and they can point to GM, to Cummins Engine, to Harman International...