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...crew beefed up the dwindling supply of Volvos with the steel posts. Angry spectators prompted a state probe. In a settlement, Volvo agreed to pay Texas $316,000 in investigative costs and to run apologetic newspaper ads. Last Friday the U.S. Hot Rod Association staged a rematch. The Volvos held up well at first, but after a few passes, the truck...
...football locker rooms. The company's recommendation: a cover-up. McArthur, which supplies terry-cloth products to the National Football League, has begun donating some 2,000 wraps and robes for all the players on the league's 28 teams. The robes and the kilt-like wraps, which are held around the waist with a Velcro closure, come in white or the team color. "They are handy, I suppose. They look nice," said Cincinnati Bengals head coach Sam Wyche, who was fined by the N.F.L. last month after he denied a female reporter access to the team's locker room...
...centerpiece of Chiles' offensive was an assault on big money in politics. While Martinez staged $1,500-a-plate fund-raising dinners, Chiles set a $100 limit on contributions and threw $1.50-a-guest hot-dog feasts. Chiles, who dropped out of the Senate citing "burnout," held on despite revelations that he takes the antidepressant drug Prozac. In the end, voters trusted Chiles more than they did Martinez. Exulted the victor: "People have not been as excited since the '60s, when Jack Kennedy was running...
Despite Bush's tumble, Democrats were not able to clean up. One reason was that they already held such a heavy majority in the House of Representatives, 258 to 175. "There are so many of us now," notes Speaker Tom Foley, that "we may be bumping up against the ceiling." But it was also clear last week that Democrats were hurt by the budget battle. Their vaunted attempt to exploit the "fairness issue" by raising taxes on the wealthy fizzled in a generalized rejection of tax hikes of all kinds...
This week Mexicans will be watching carefully as the returns roll in from municipal and legislative elections held Nov. 11 in the state of Mexico. There is widespread skepticism that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has governed the country for 60 years, will permit a fair count in the state, where it lost in 1988. The party's reputation is not helped by the fact that two P.R.I. victories last year in the central states of Guerrero and Michoacan provoked opposition charges of ballot rigging and resulted in violent clashes between police and demonstrators...