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...Barbara Mertz has as many aliases as a bank robber. But her profession, although equally lucrative, is more honorable. Mertz is the author of 65 books, most of them mysteries written using the pseudonyms Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters, some of them books about Egypt under her own name. It is her Peters alter ego who has the latest book out: Children of the Storm (Morrow). It continues the Egypt-based saga of heroine Amelia Peabody, a spirited archaeologist, and her headstrong archaeologist husband Radcliffe Emerson...
...Lucy Ricardo was, in those early I Love Lucy episodes, just a generic daffy housewife. Ethel (Vivian Vance), her neighbor and landlady, was a stock busybody. Desi Arnaz, as bandleader Ricky Ricardo, hadn't yet become one of the finest straight men in TV history. William Frawley, as Fred Mertz, seemed a Hollywood has-been in search of work, which...
...least in theory--combines the flexibility and independence of private cars with the economy of public transportation. "It gives you the freedom to travel comfortably and safely in your own vehicle and at the same time be able to watch movies, read or catch up on paperwork," says Edward Mertz, general manager of General Motors' Buick division...
...decision," Fitch said in a statement read by Nets spokesman John Mertz during a telephone conference call...
...unlikely that many would become hot sellers. Detroit has not cared much about the Japanese market for the past 50 years, even though it is now the second largest in the world (52 million vehicles on the road, in contrast to 183 million in the U.S.). Says Edward Mertz, a GM vice president: "It really wasn't a priority...