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...move the marble stones, some of which weigh as much as twelve tons, Korres plans to use a French-built arch crane with dangling giant forceps. When work begins (perhaps as soon as December), the crane's silhouette will stretch skyward from the Acropolis, dwarfing the monuments. Its first task: setting straight a carved column at the temple's southeast corner, which has tilted precariously since a 1981 earthquake moved its base by more than one inch. When the crane is idle, its upper portions will fold down, out of sight of the residents and visitors...
...Interior Secretary, notorious for his outspoken arch-conservatism ("I don't use the words 'Democrats' and 'Republicans.' It's liberals and Americans.") has succeeded, with a few words, in foiling the President's recent efforts to improve the Administration's image among women and minorities. The gaffe has prompted a flurry of vitriolic criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike, culminating in the proposal of a Senate Resolution urging the President to request Watt to resign...
...this may turn out to be a highly selective and perhaps misleading use of history. There is a big difference between Nixon in 1972 and Reagan in 1984. For one thing, Nixon was the Kremlin's candidate. Brezhnev & Co. had seen the arch cold warrior transformed into the champion of detente, and they wanted him reelected. Reagan will surely not have that dubious endorsement next year. The Soviets had hopes that Reagan would undergo a Nixonian metamorphosis, but they probably have no such hopes any longer. Regardless of his tactical and rhetorical readjustments of late, they...
...first place. The authors do, however, applaud the Prime Minister's Churchillian tenacity once there was no turning back. "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands drama from its inception to the euphoria of the final triumph," they conclude. "Her single-mindedness, even her arch phraseology ('Defeat-I do not recognize the meaning of the word!'), all seemed to armor her against any suspicion that this might be a dangerous, even absurd, adventure...
...excess, Bob Hope's three-year-old, 25,000-sq.-ft. home in Palm Springs, Calif., is not the gesture of an old man content to dwell quietly among yesterday's memories. Climbing the cascade of black marble stairs under the house's wide-vaulting arch, a visitor might be on some gigantic Academy Awards set, a gleaming desert mirage. Actually, the place is a kind of hotel. Even when the owner is on the road, friends check in for a few days. On this afternoon, however, the sound of Crosby-esque bubabooing from another room indicates...