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...reporter for the Santa Ana Register, for example, asked CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt for his autograph. Though the networks probably spent $200,000 on the ten-day publicity binge, the gifts (rugby shirts and overnight bags) and entertainments (trips to Tijuana and harbor cruises) of past years were notably absent...
...emphasize the positive, AMC sent newsmen a tongue-in-cheek "Adjective Selector," to be used when writing about the company. Notably absent from the list: puny, little, troubled and skidding. Among the suggested replacements: aggressive, astounding, booming and dazzling. Trouble is, Volkswagen is now producing more cars in the U.S. than "fearless" AMC, bumping that "gutsy" company down to fifth place among domestic car producers. But "ingenious" AMC expects to do better once its "formidable" arrangement to sell French Renault cars gets going in the U.S. later this year...
Naturally, Images [Jan. 1] could not have included every event of this sort, but the violence in Lebanon that has caused immense devastation and misery, and threatens to attain wider and more sinister proportions in the region, was absent from your account. A tragedy of this order should have been included...
...distances (all European pools and official world record are metric while this meet was swum on a 25 yd. course), fell during the meet--both during the German assault on the first night. Barbara Krause, world record holder and 1978 world champion in the 100-m freestyle, shattered the absent Tracy Caulkins' mark in the aforementioned opening sweep with a 49.45 clocking. She joined teammates Care Meitschuck, Sari Hulsenbeck and Weike Witt in the final event of the evening to bury the old standard in the 400-yd. freestyle relay with...
Military families are ripe for trouble, says the psychiatrist, because the father is absent much of the time, families see themselves as transients with no real roots, and wives and children are viewed as dependents, marginal to the all-male authoritarian structure of the military. Children move from school to school so frequently that "they have to break into peer groups repeatedly as the 'new kid' and are often the school's scapegoat." According to LaGrone, part of the problem is not the military's fault: the Army life attracts men from authoritarian families, who pass...