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Numero uno mountain man is Mike Clark, a 220-pound senior who can do it all. And for the first time since 1975's championship club, there is depth on the offensive line. Mac DeCamp, Mike Brown, Dave Peltier and fierce sophomore Orazio Lattanzi have been going at it in a battle for the second guard spot...
During the daytime, what action there is tends to center on the city's private-enterprise markets, which the Hanoi regime has sensibly avoided stamping out. The markets afford most Hanoi citizens a supplement to their meager official rations?but at a huge price. Fresh fish cost $1.77 a pound, while the average worker's salary amounts to only $30 a month...
NONFICTION: Evita: First Lady, John Barnes ∙ Ezra Pound in Italy, edited by Gianfranco Ivancich, photographs by Vittorugo Contino ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Old School Tie, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
...Week without pain or loss of all-important style points. If you want to enjoy your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...
...exchange and gold markets may have to wait a very long time. Last week's trading was an example: though there was no special news to drive the dollar down, it sank to record lows against the yen, mark and Swiss franc, and also declined against the British pound, which bobbed briefly over $2 for the first time since 1976. Despite the later rally, at week's end the dollar had registered these drops just since mid-July: 7% against the yen, 3.5% against the mark, 10.5% against the Swiss franc, 3% against the pound. Says James Sinclair...