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DIVORCED. James Earl ("Chip") Carter III, 29, the President's party-loving second son, now employed as assistant to the manager of Carter's campaign staff; and Caron Carter, 29, Georgia schoolteacher; after seven years of marriage, one child (a son, James Earl Carter IV); in Americus...
...spend through 1985 to comply with air-and water-quality standards. In just one year, the spending to meet the last 5% to 10% increments in environmental standards is so high that the money could build four energy-saving continuous casters for rolling steel. Says U.S. Steel Vice President Earl Mallick: "If we could invest that money in those facilities, we would have a totally different steel industry...
After a while, I turned the task into a game, tossing papers onto desks like Earl Monroe at the Garden. I got away with these shenanigans because I was often the only one in the newsroom. At the Times, the motto, besides All The News That's Fit To Print, seemed to be Very Late to Bed, Very Late to Rise...
...argument in favor of women cops is that they are better than men in talking people out of violence. Says Oakland, Calif., Police Sergeant Earl Sargent: "Just as you don't have to teach a man how to fight-they grow up playing war and cowboys-in the same way, you don't have to teach a woman how to talk." That statement, like many issued by male cops these days, accepts the fact that policewomen are here to stay. Indeed, women routinely face the same dangers as men. Last fall in Oakland a drunk attacked a female...
...strip away the excitement of the story. Charles II's father was at war with his own subjects by the time Charles was nine. When Charles was 11, he was sent to the House of Lords to plead for the life of the Earl of Strafford, the King's friend and servant. Parliament condemned Strafford anyway, and he was executed for high treason. At 12, he saw his first battle. At it, he left his father, who was soon captured by the Parliamentary troops, and never saw him again. When he was 19, his father was executed for high treason...