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...rise is due partly to narrowing differences in education and to a shift in black employment from farming to industry and government. Decreasing discrimination may be another factor, though the rate of black economic progress was as great during the 20 years before 1960 as afterward...
Lauren has flourished in Europe, which is tough turf for an American designer. Calvin Klein, for one, opened a retailing outlet in Milan in 1982 but closed it soon afterward in response to slow sales. By contrast, in its * first four months of operation, Lauren's Paris store on the corner of the Rue Royale and Place de la Madeleine has stimulated the French taste for the preppie look. The New Bond Street shop in London, which met lukewarm response when it opened in 1981, now plans to triple its floor space. Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who wear only...
...feed the world's hungry? "We could have so much more peace with a full stomach than a hungry one. We have hungry people in this nation, and we could feed them," Bradley said, furrowing his brow in a look of disgust. "But there is politics, and corruption." Afterward, three game Soviets took turns roaring down a gravel road on a Honda three-wheeler. When the last one disappeared over a hill for a moment, no one seemed to notice, not the American who owned the machine and not the Soviets who might / wonder if the rider would ever come...
...restored 18th century stronghold on Lake Ontario. The conflict usually re-enacted is the siege of Fort Niagara, won by the British in 1759. But, one Saturday not long ago, the Siege of Oswego (1756) was refought, and the French and their Indian allies forced a British surrender. Afterward, Harry Burgess, 38, a Port Huron, Mich., history teacher, ranted to an onlooker in French-accented English about "thees monster," the British army. Reverting to normal English, Burgess said that partaking in such battles "gives us a private time machine...
...workers to and from the reactor area after the explosion. Why did they do it? Hammer asked. "Someone had to," they replied. Would they do it again? "Sure." Hammer also met V.D. Dznenko, who had been visiting her daughter in the area at the time of the accident. Afterward Hammer and Gale took a low-altitude flight over the damaged reactor and nearby deserted villages. "It was an eerie sight," Hammer said. "I wish that anyone who . thinks that a nuclear war can be won could see what I've seen...