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Alternative newspapers have grown old with their original audience, the postwar baby-boom generation now moving into its 30s. At Denver's Straight Creek Journal and Seattle's Weekly, the average reader's age is 35. "Politics doesn't sell on the front page since Viet Nam," says Bruce Brugmann, 43, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (circ. 35,000). "We put politics on the front page, but we have to highlight it with where to find the best sandwich...
...Premier had many reasons for wanting early elections now. Although 1.7 million Italians are out of work and inflation (annual rate: 12.9%) remains high, Andreotti's policies have helped stabilize the lira and brought the economy to the verge of a new boom. In 1978 Italy piled up an impressive $6.4 billion balance of payments surplus and increased exports by 10%. Says an aide to the Premier: "In the last three years, we put through more constructive legislation than all the governments of the past 15 years put together." The Christian Democrats hope to regain the support of disillusioned...
...best hope for the guidelines is that the economy will begin to slow from its unexpectedly extended boom, and there are signs that this is happening. After inflation, real personal income has declined at an annual rate of 6.3% so far this year. Retail sales, U.S.-made-auto sales and housing starts have also slowed...
...almost immutable pecking order of colleges, only about half the students admitted actually enrolled at Brown. The rest went to schools like Princeton, Yale and Harvard, which has about a 75% "yield." But lately Brown has become very popular. At a time when the end of the baby boom spells a declining applicant pool, the school's applications have jumped 25% in two years. With good reason. Brown works hard to sell itself. The 16 members of the admissions committee are young, diverse, impressive-the kind of mix Brown wants to enroll. The group visits almost 1,000 high...
...Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants (some 10,000) as it did in the 1840s, whaling's heyday...