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They are discovered waltzing: Michael and Elizabeth Courtland, all wreathed in elegance, surrounded by admiring friends, a beautiful and blessed couple celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. When the party is over they make their way upstairs, where their lovemaking seems certain to be as tastefully romantic as their party...
...first-quarter profits amply demonstrated Detroit's rise from the recessionary dumps: GM earned $800 million, Ford $343 million, Chrysler $72 million (American Motors, however, suffered a $4 million loss in the most recent quarter). Only 30,000 workers at the four companies are still on layoff, one-tenth the number that were idle in February 1975. The contracts signed in 1973 raised the average assembly-line worker's wages 570 an hour and contained an unlimited cost of living adjustment (COLA) that has added another $1.09. As a result, those workers now make about $6.57 an hour...
...still catching his breath when a young man approached him, shook his hand and announced he would take Avilov's crown away from him at the next Olympics. "I took a good look," Avilov recalls. "Just think, a kid who had placed way down the list somewhere [tenth] threatening to beat...
...disconsolate about the court's action and pledged to continue fighting for each condemned convict. But he admitted that "we don't hold out much hope." The death sentence has not been carried out in the U.S. sAice 1967.* That moratorium may not last through its tenth year...
Recently, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley invited supporters attending the tenth annual conference of his central Kingston constituency to study closely a film called The Rise and Fall of the CIA, a British-made documentary about alleged agency operations in Laos, Viet Nam and Salvador Allende's Chile. "I cannot prove in a court of law that the CIA is here," Manley told his audience. "What I have said is that certain strange things are happening in Jamaica which we have not seen before...