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...hell of a percentage increase in these day-after-nuclear scripts," says Michael Fuchs, president of Home Box Office's entertainment group. Apocalypse has clearly become something more than the fate that looms just over the horizon line. It may be the growth industry of the ' 80s...
Winthrop House--now designated as the team of the '80s by House football enthusiasts and analysts--is expected to make the biggest splash out there this year. After all, it won the championship last season, and its current lineup is bolstered by two former varsity gridiron kings. But what if Winthrop doesn't (heaven forbid) take the title this time around? That improbable question can be answered by looking to the Year of the Point...
Muldoon, the former chairman of the Joint Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, called Bretton Woods "the most remarkable economic experiment the world had ever seen or has seen since," but added that a new agreement should be tailored to the problems of the '80s...
...furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play...
...when Jackson must prove to wary Hispanics, women's groups, progressive labor groups, and others that this rainbow coalition is the key to future political power. If it succeeds, against all the known and unforeseen obstacles. The surge of grassroots citizens groups of the '70s may consolidate in the '80s into new local and national coalitions, capable of a class-based realignment of American politics...