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...gave Sharon the encouragement implied. According to Haig, moreover, the former Defense Minister has assured him he never took his words as approval. Even if the Secretary of State did deliver the speech cited in Sniffer's book, it at best constituted not a green light but an amber one, full of the normal ambiguities of diplomatic discourse...
...rush-hour traffic on Moscow's broad boulevards was moving at a crawl when the convoys of black ZIL limousines, amber lights gleaming, appeared out of the morning mist. The motorcades whipped by at 70 m.p.h., down empty center lanes marked off for official traffic. The more than 300 members of the Communist Party's Central Committee were on their way to the Kremlin for their annual winter session. All of them but one. There was no hint of the whereabouts of the Soviet Union's head of state, Yuri Andropov, 69, who had not been seen...
...After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told...
Companies soon found other advantages to an underground business. In 1960, Amber Brunson, 77, president of Brunson Instrument, a maker of precision optical devices, set up a plant in the caves because vibrations in a surface building posed problems. Once the operation got going, Brunson found that he was also able to cut energy costs to almost nothing; the caves stay at a stable 57° to 62° all year long. Says he: "I've turned the furnace off for six weeks in the dead of winter without our employees complaining...
Woodrow Wilson's diamond-bright belief of peace through world order reached and inspired the farthest corners of civilization. But he was frozen in the amber of his vision, and would not bend in the legislative struggle to bring the U.S. into the League of Nations...