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...said that the price of steam has more than doubled since last year and that prices ran about one-third above the steam allocation in this year's budget...
...hair thinner, but underneath he is a 45-year-old Duddy, playing the same game. All the failures, the deadends, the shameful deeds accumulated over decades have done nothing to wean Cohen from a world where all behavior is governed by passions. "Listen, Duddy," he tells Kravitz through the steam sauna, "it's not all wine and honey in this world, but I've got a family and I take damned good care of them. My Bernie won't have to send his partner to jail. But he didn't land in this country with three words of English...
...their new seriousness, students still blow off steam. They have rediscovered some old fads-panty raids at the University of Michigan and the twist at Houston's Rice University-and some other fancies as well. Among undergraduates at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., rides in large coin-operated clothes dryers are the latest thrill-with the door open or, more dangerously because of the heat, with it closed. Admits Junior Steve Wildey, 20: "It sounds kind of dumb. But after a few beers, it seems like an entirely reasonable thing...
...February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned 4,871-ft. leap across Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8 in a steam-powered Sky Cycle. While New York Congressman John Murphy sought legislation to ban coverage of Knievel's ultimate caper over network TV, "where it can be viewed by our children," good old Evel, at age 34, vowed to make his flight as planned. "I'll never want...
...women in America. The women Seifer is talking about do not have the choices that, for instance, women at Radcliffe have. It is in no one's economic self-interest to offer these women a leg up; if they raise themselves, it will almost certainly be on their own steam. So it is ironic that these women, who must fight for every inch of ground on which they stand, are developing a strength which many of us, their more privileged sisters, have not begun to feel. We have been slipped into the backrooms of power by the male gatekeepers with...