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...presidential campaign. A year later, Smith died, and having worked at five jobs in five years, Helms decided to go back home and make a normal life in North Carolina: build a house (a red brick quasi-colonial next door to his father-in-law), join the Rotary Club (chapter president), gab with the Masons (32nd degree, the second highest rank), and devote evenings to making popcorn with Dot and his daughters...
...that the present monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled social protest." It was a threat the government could not take lightly: the issue of food prices, after all, had touched off the July 1980 strikes that in turn led to the birth of Solidarity. The government now says...
...later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley...
...later, the Philadelphia Bulletin gave its unions until this week to accept $5 million in contract concessions; otherwise it, too, would shut down. Now the New York Daily News has announced that its year-old afternoon paper, Tonight, will stop publication on Aug. 28. Thus was written the latest chapter in a two-decade-old story of failure in the afternoon, this time with the loss of 320 jobs on the nation's largest metropolitan newspaper. But the significance of the Daily News decision went beyond its ill-fated evening edition. In explaining Tonight's demise, News officials...
Horses, love and death begun a new race-track murder mystery and then abandoned it as hopeless after one chapter. But the case is sadly real. About the strange death of Dr. Janice Runkle-a racehorse veterinarian who ministered to Pleasant Colony, the winner of this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness-hardly more than one fact is totally clear: her body was discovered on a bleak stretch of Lake Michigan shore line in Illinois. The rest is a troubling bundle of loose ends. There are unrequited loves and an assumed name, a quest for comfort and sudden flight...