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...Live with a Cubaholic" and "How to Kick the Habit." Entrepreneurs Steven and Roger Hill of Menlo Park, Calif., have produced what they call "the ultimate solution": the Cube Smasher, a plastic paddle guaranteed to pound the puzzle to bits. So far they have sold 100,000. Those who resort to the Cube Smasher may also be interested in a paperback released this month by Tor Books. Its title: 101 Uses for a Dead Cube...
...background for decades but has only just come to the fore since Brezhnev lured Reagan into a public argument about the feasibility of limited nuclear war. At issue is declaratory nuclear doctrine: the official statements that the superpowers make to define the circumstances in which they might resort to the use of their ultimate weapons. On this particular grim but hypothetical topic, the U.S. is almost sure to continue taking a beating...
...Latin tinge that now colors South Florida is still primarily Cuban. The refugees who began arriving from Castro's island in the early 1960s were largely middle-class professionals, and over the past two decades they have transformed Miami from a resort town into an international city where "buenos dias" and frijoles negros are as familiar as "good morning" and hamburgers...
...undeclared ally in Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. "I want to think that the strike will be the last one of its kind," he told workers at Warsaw's Rosa Luxemburg electronics plant on the day of the national walkout. Instead of symbolic protests, he suggested, the workers should resort to "active strikes," remaining on the job but distributing "what we make ourselves...
...sales remain slow through the fourth quarter, industry observers speculate that Chrysler, as a last resort, will be forced to ask Washing ton for the final $300 million of the $1.5 billion in Government loan guarantees authorized during the The Carter Administration. The company, though, says it has no plans to ask for the additional aid. Only three months ago, Chairman Lee lacocca announced a $12 million profit for the second quarter and said, "We've got our act together, and we're on our way back...