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...Solis Ruiz, 52, Minister of the Movimiento Nacional, Spain's bureaucracy-clogged official party, and boss of its labor syndicates. His jowls are heavy and blue, his head is bald, and his speech is thick with the accents of Andalusia, but Pepe Solis is probably the sharpest practicing politician in the land. The father...
Stability, light weight and low cost are the small boatman's criteria. In dinghies, Chapman Yates leads the fleet with its new 8-ft. 3-in. Hydro-Pram, available for either sail ($465) or outboard ($250). Because of a thick bottom layer of polyurethane foam, it will not capsize with a 145-lb. boy standing on its gunwale, nor sink when filled with water and two beefy men. Total weight: 90 lbs. Lighter still is the 10-ft. 4-in. Swift, George O'Day's bid for a slice of the sailboard market. Only...
...live. We are not sure our land is under us. Ten feet away, no one hears us. But wherever there's even a half-conversation, we remember the Kremlin s mountaineer. His thick fingers are fat as worms, his words reliable as ten pound weights. His boot tops shine, his cockroach mustache is laughing. About him, the great, his thin-necked, drained advisors. He plays with them. He is happy with half-men around him. They make touching and funny animal sounds. He alone talks Russian. One after another, his sentences like horseshoes! He pounds them out. He always...
Between sessions with visiting states men, Lyndon Johnson spent hours last week frowning over a thick green looseleaf notebook. Its neat rows of figures, summarizing every Government department's current and requested spending, persuaded the President that some hefty cutting remains to be done before his budget is completed around Jan. 1. Then, and not until then, will he decide whether or not to run the political risk of a tax increase in a congressional election year...
...books have thick paper and plastic covers to withstand rough wear and tropical rains. One shipment of 2,000 books survived two weeks in boxes under nine feet of flood water. They range from simple hygiene texts-Now let's brush our teeth...