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...short order Evans sharpened the paper's writing, splashed bold photographs on its gray pages, and instituted a cleaner, livelier layout. Circulation rose 6.7% to 297,787 for the second half of 1981, compared with the same period in 1980, and Evans was named "editor of the year" by his peers. No matter. Last week, as doomsayers had predicted right along, Murdoch forced Evans...
There were more perfect moments than anyone could have hoped for: playing Mattel Electronic Football with Ben Poquette; having big Bob Lanier call me a "dumb white boy" after I ran over his size-22 foot with a vacuum cleaner. And then giving me a big smile...
...campaign for cleaner air has become mired in controversy. Business says it must spend at least $16 billion a year to meet environmental regulations, and insists that this is too high a price. The act's supporters, on the other hand, claim the costs are balanced by the creation of a whole new pollution-control industry and by a reduction in the national medical bill for pollution-related illnesses. When the act was scheduled for re-examination by Congress last year, the Administration, acting on a Reagan campaign pledge, sought to relax clean air standards in the interests...
...introduced last December in the House by Democrat Thomas Luken of Ohio. The legislation does not give in to industry demands for an easing of "primary" air-quality standards, which would directly affect the health of Americans. And in spite of business's claims that the tab for cleaner ah-has been reduced productivity, the new bill does not go along with a demand that additional antipollution measures be subjected to cost-benefit analyses. Such tests would try to determine whether the extra benefits to society derived from, say, putting smokestack "scrubbers" on coal-burning plants are really worth...
Indeed, a well-made leather garment will last ten to 15 years. It travels well and does not wrinkle easily. And leather seldom if ever has to be cleaned. Exults Arleen Sorkin, a Manhattan actress-model: "When I was wearing silk, the dry cleaner loved me. When I was wearing white cotton, the Chinese laundry loved me. Now I have a $300 chamois dress and, you know, it's hand washable. It's also great for cleaning records." Some leather buffs use an art gum eraser on stains, while others maintain that leather should be permitted, like...