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...Columbia looked gorgeous, nothing less, to its creators who watched?along with the first scheduled pilots, John Young and Robert Crippen?as it lumbered onto its pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral one chilly day last week. Said NASA Director Robert Frosch: "We are now at the threshold of a new capability to investigate the universe...
...fact, for investors to make up for the loss in buying power caused by inflation, stock prices would have to climb far higher than they have. Since 1965, when the Dow first approached the four-digit threshold, inflation has chopped the buying power of a dollar to little more than 400. For investors in the 30 stocks of the Dow industrials to be as well off today as 15 years ago, the averages would have to hover not at 1,000 but at 2,500-and not even Wall Street's most starry-eyed optimists see that kind...
...with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works, how we as playgoers are carried across the threshold from reality to illusion in the twinkling of a craftsmaster...
...country like jet-age traveling salesmen. They have jammed the airwaves with millions of dollars' worth of advertising. They have attacked each other's records ceaselessly. Their families and friends and surrogates have added their voices to the din of denunciation and promotion. Yet on the very threshold of the presidential election of 1980, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan remain just where they were at the beginning of their long campaign-locked in a virtual tie among registered voters...
...expect from Ronald Reagan. Federal aid to cities accomplishes nothing because it takes from Chicago and gives to Detroit. Cutting federal spending on social services--while raising defense spending $25 billion--will curb inflation. Exactly this type of superficial approach to deepseated problems has brought the Tories to the threshold of a fiscal crisis...