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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 8-- Georgia, its dreams of an unbeaten and untied football season and a national championship seemingly shattered, ...

A DODGE dealer in Mount Kisco, N.Y., offers an unusual optional extra. A bumper sticker that proclaims, "This vehicle built in America by Americans for Americans." On a similar nationalistic note, the United Auto Workers union is advertising in newspapers and on radio for Americans to buy American cars. And at least 12 states have adopted regulations requiring state agencies to do just that.

FOR any participant, however peripheral, in the miserable tangle of the Arab-Israeli conflict, so repetitive, so threadbare, so infinitely sad, so apparently insoluble, an eyewitness account of life in Egypt by an ...

In an era of wide cyclical swings in the construction of homes that has seen estimated housing starts in 1980 drop by half a million units from a high of 2 million in 1978, the remodelers of America's aging existing structures have become an increasingly large factor in the building industry.

DANBURY THE construction crews that have been churning up the hills on the western and southern sides of this city for three years in the first phase of a massive building project have largely completed the horizontal, futuristic structures of two giant ...

Plans to adapt the former Police Headquarters building in Little Italy to a luxury hotel or tenant-owned apartments or a cultural center have stirred up new controversies over the city's "request for proposals" process of negotiating major new developments and raised questions about the neighborhood's future.

"THE suburbs have come of age," said Joseph M. Mar giotta, the Nassau Republican chairman, as he assessed the stunning victory of Ronald Reagan and Alfonse M. D'Amato in last week's election.

"IS it possible to have a life centered around a family and a child and still be an artist?" asked John Lennon. For Mr. Lennon, widely regarded as the most thoughtful and outspoken of the four Beatles during their heyday in the 60's, the question is far from rhetorical. To gether with his wife, Yoko Ono, and their 5-year-old son, ...

LOCUST VALLEY FOR the last month, most of the tenured faculty members at Locust Valley High School have gone about their duties in a strictly "by-the-book" manner. They are protesting the school district's decision to continue proceedings against a colleague accused of putting a tarantula in another teacher's candy dish, ...

THE elections last Tuesday opened the way for a new generation of political leadership in Connecticut, and, in the view of many politicians, established Senator-elect Christopher J. Dodd as the new Democratic power in the state.

ATLANTA, Nov. 8--Georgia Tech. despite having its worst season in 46 years, had one of the biggest days in its 89 years of football today when it ended Notre Dame's chances for a perfect season by achieving a 3-3 tie with the undefeated Irish.