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...grim dispatches have come one after another, like casualty reports from the front lines. First the Washington Star announced it was closing. A few days 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...
...entrenched Government had become fearful of action, always alarmed by the thought of alienating supporters and by the possibility of failure. Reagan has so far not been intimidated by these specters. He was clearly not troubled by them last week, when he emerged from the Oval Office, strode grim-faced to the microphones in the Rose Garden and confronted the striking air controllers with an intensity not seen around those premises since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. There was a certain grave exhilaration in the moment for Reagan and his men. Seeking an end to the crisis...
...resisted appeals for scientific studies, and even today have never passed a basic compensation law for A-bomb victims. Yet through a variety of techniques-autopsies, statistical studies and radiation experiments-Japanese as well as American and European scientists have pieced together the story of the attacks and their grim consequences...
...picture is almost as grim when it comes to housing starts, the point where men, materials and money combine to build a house. In June, starts were running at an annual level of slightly more than 1 million, less than half the record rate of 2.5 million set in January 1972. Further depressing the market is the growing inventory of unsold completed homes, enough for 9.3 months of sales at the current pace. This is second only to the record backlog of 12.4 months in April 1980. Sluggish starts have idled construction crews, slowed demand for everything from roofing nails...
...parasites, got a long and polite hearing from Ted Koppel on ABC. Glimpses of cockney women cooing about Lady Di's charms were offset by skinheads as indifferent to the wedding as to anything else. ABC intermixed its prattle of gowns and rehearsals with pictures of grim unemployment lines in what it captioned "The Other Britain." Britain's other big story NBC'S Tom Brokaw, looking as preppie-eager...