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...contrast is sharpest in the closing scenes of the movie, when six of the seven astronauts have made it into space. While the NASA crew is being wined and dined at an elaborate Texas barbecue, Yeager rides to Edwards Air Force Base and steps into a new jet fighter. The Soviets, he says, have set a new speed record, and he is determined to break it. As the astronauts comfortably watch a Sally Road feather dance from their banquet hall seats. Yeager goes too for too fast and loses control. But in an act more heroic than any earth orbit...
...divorce rate last year ranged from a low 3.2 per 1,000 in Pennsylvania to a high 13.9 per 1,000 in Nevada and 8.3 in Alaska. Marriages (2.5 million) boomed for the seventh straight year and reached the highest rate (10.8 per 1,000) since 1973. The sharpest rises, 5% and 6% respectively, occurred in the Middle Atlantic states and New England. The dip in the divorce rate may be partly the result of a new trend revealed in another Government study: the postponement of marriage by those in the 20-to-24 age group. "There...
...expect amenities. Example: a woman recently checked into a large, state-run hospital in Tokyo to have a thyroid tumor removed. She was able to get a semiprivate room. The sheets were changed only once a week and the bath and toilet were down the hall. Her sharpest recollection: "I hated to go to the bathroom. Scores of cockroaches were clustered there at night." Still, she said, "the care was excellent...
...more modern times, probably no one's tongue cut deeper than that of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes. The Secretary accused Huey Long of having "halitosis of the intellect," but saved his sharpest darts for Thomas E. Dewey. When the New York Governor announced for the presidency, Ickes commented that "Dewey has thrown his diaper into the ring," and steadfastly refused to listen to Dewey's speeches because, he explained, "I have a baby...
Although Volcker has seesawed at times, he has generally kept on course so well that many critics blame his tight-money policies for the sharpest U.S. business slump since the Great Depression. "By mid-1981 inflation was under control," says Michael Evans, a Washington-based economic consultant. "But Volcker overstayed his welcome. He didn't ease up until mid-1982, and that turned a moderate recession into the worst one ever...