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DIED. Federico De Laurentiis, 26, son of Movie Producer Dino De Laurentiis (The Serpent's Egg, King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...saved-by-the-bell wedding ending recalls The Graduate, except this is unequivocably happy. The Graduate rejected the Establishment, Arthur embraces it. Ban and Elaine rode off in a public bus, Arthur and Linda scoot off in a chauffeur-driven Rolls, gleefully content with their $700 million nest egg...
After the first big outbreak, in Medford. Mass., in the late 19th century, New Englanders began battling the gypsy moth by putting out arsenic, soaking egg masses in creosote, burning down whole trees. But the bugs kept spreading. Wafted by winds, hitchhiking on cars and campers, they slowly migrated to at least 21 states, including Florida and California, although so far only pockets of serious infestation have occurred west or south of West Virginia. In the 1950s, scientists thought they finally had the moths under control with DDT. But the pesticide caused so much ecological havoc, including the death...
...call it a wave, but it has hurt two of the nation's leading newspapers. When the Washington Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize a month ago, the paper's guiding spirit, Katharine Graham, commented: "I think there is some feeling that this was an egg that would not have been laid in a lot of other places...
...passbook savings was considered to be about normal. The trouble began in the mid-1960s, when inflation rose from 1% to 5%. In 1965, when thrifts were paying up to 4¾%, a family earning the national average of $7,704 and with a nest egg of about $3,500 in the bank would have realized an annual return of about $80 after inflation and federal taxes were taken into account. By 1967 inflation and taxes had reduced the gain to zero. In the year 1970, that same average family would have lost $110; and in 1979 it would have...