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Riding into this prickly cactus patch are Presidential Contenders Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, for whom the May 5 caucuses loom as a High Noon. Actually, a more apt Texas metaphor for Hart might be the Alamo. Reeling from his defeats in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and, last week, Missouri, he vowed to start winning again in the West. A bad loss in the Lone Star State could start the vultures circling. For Jackson, the state's large Hispanic vote tests his ability to make his "rainbow coalition" a bit less monochromatic than it has been...
RECUPERATING. Michael Jackson, 25, rock-soul superstar; from an 80-minute laser surgical procedure to remove a palm-size patch of scalp tissue scarred from burns received while he was making a TV commercial last January; in Culver City, Calif. Healthy, hair-growing tissue was drawn across the area and stitched in place...
...almost every case, the White House has been able to patch together agreements between the State Department and the Pentagon only with the greatest difficulty. This bureaucratic battling has produced little that seems likely to interest the Kremlin, which wants to do nothing that might politically help the man whom one Soviet commentator called "the worst U.S. President since Truman." The prospects for significant progress in the superpowers' relations for the remainder of this year have rarely appeared dimmer. Said one top Reagan aide of the chances for a thaw: "I think under any scenario we're talking...
...many of the 1,400 dealers who carry the new PCjr have yet to sell even their initial 25-machine allotments. "Inventory is beginning to pile up," says Alexander Stein, an analyst with Dataquest, a California research firm. Says one New York City dealer: "A Cabbage Patch doll...
...current racist South African regime, and to any support of that regime through investment in companies that do business in South Africa. Any implication to the contrary is ludicrous. More specifically, the letter to The Crimson (SASC, March 15) signed by Henry Park and others is an outrageous patch work of misrepresentation and innuendo...