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...racket skills Princeton has been better all along. Any progressive equality between the two teams over the course of the season has been forged by the Crimson's refinement of those racket skills to the point that they can slice through the bludgeoning of the typical college game...
Executives at the Burbank, Calif., headquarters of Lockheed Corp. were all smiles last week, while at rival McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis the gloom was thick enough to slice with a propeller. The reason: word had leaked out that the Pentagon was recommending the $4.6 billion purchase of 50 of the giant Lockheed C-5Ns as cargo airlifters for the nation's rapid deployment force. The decision was an unexpected one, since only last August chiefs of the Air Force, Army and Marines had unanimously recommended that a new plane designed by McDonnell Douglas...
Palestine twitches on the small white mat, struggles to raise her head, and failing, falls back again; she cries, then stops. Some slice of light has caught her attention. The nurse in bright pink carries a bird cage to the mat, and for a moment Palestine is pleased by two jumpy canaries-one black, one yellow. Now she rolls back and forth. Her legs, still bowed, kick out spasmodically. You cannot tell if she hears the music in the nursery or the murmurs of the other babies, stacked up in their double-decker box cribs. She acknowledges...
...more cheese than they can sell commercially. But that would be a lot to ask of politicians. The new farm bill actually increases present price-support levels over four years. Meanwhile, the Government is left with a stockpile that is a mess ... oh, all right, no matter how you slice...
Washington-based Economic Consultant Michael Evans predicts that wages in 1982 will increase no faster than the inflation rate, probably by about 8%. At the same time, he estimates, givebacks on fringe benefits and time off, combined with productivity increases, will slice 3% from operating expenses. The result: a reduction of about 3% in real labor costs during 1982. After years of ever higher unit-labor costs, that could be a small but important step in the struggle against inflation. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Paul A. Witteman 'Detroit