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Burford, now 47, still lives with his wife Fern in a subdivision house in Elkins, W. Va., but is planning a six-bedroom chalet at Snowshoe, a big new ski resort near by. He owns that...
...airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls-an attack that did not prove serious enough to cancel the nightly sundowner cruise for tourists along the Zambezi River...
Some pet problems can be handled with the oldest of remedies: loving care and companionship. In many cases, Topeka Animal Dermatologist George Doering reported, dogs resort to tail-chewing as a ploy to get attention from a neglectful master. Doering's prescription: either devote more time to the pet or, if Rover is willing, bring in another dog as a playmate...
...1930s, protectionist tendencies remain powerful. In an effort to defuse those tendencies in the U.S.-where they are strong in Congress and among the trade unions-President Carter, a committed free trader, is trying to solve trade problems one at a time. The unpleasant alternative would have been to resort to high tariff barriers that might set off a global trade war and raise havoc with the fragile world economy...
Nonetheless, the battle of the sexes turns out, as ever, to be a minor holocaust. The combatants: one wife and two husbands. The first husband (Rip Torn) arrives incognito to strike up a friendship with the second husband (John Heard), an artist at a Swedish resort hotel. Systematically, satanically, the older man destroys the younger. He suggests that he give up painting to become a sculptor and then deplores his sculpting. He arouses fears about his health, plants doubts about his wife's fidelity and certainties about her leeching parasitism...