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...arson occurred in the early morning of the Republican Convention's final day. Earlier in the week, Mary Kay Ash, the cosmetics tycoon, embarrassed many of her fellow Dallas residents with remarks she made about the School Book Depository in a nationally televised interview. "I think what we should [do] is tear that building down," she said, "and make a parking lot out of that thing and not have it there for people to remember...
...positively disliked the country. She became claustrophobic in native huts. She had little taste for artifacts. Her passion was for collecting people. From the time she took charge of her playmates' games, Mead proved a relentless organizer of others, regardless of their sex. In college, she formed the "Ash Can Cats," her first extended family, and bound these classmates to her for the rest of her life...
...tough talk, no declarations that the Soviets are "the focus of evil in the modern world," no boasts that the "march of freedom and democracy ... will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." Enter Reagan the statesman, man of peace and reason, holding out an olive branch to the Kremlin. "I am willing to meet and talk any time," he declared at a White House press conference last week. "The door is open. Every once in a while, we're standing in the doorway, seeing if anyone's coming up the steps...
Recalling the famous statement by Reagan that Marxism would be consigned to "the ash heap of history," Moscow accuses him of wanting to do nothing less than overthrow the Communist regime. One Soviet official advanced the following frightening hypothesis last week: "Reagan has tried to create an image of the Soviet Union as a hostile and inhuman country. It looks to us as if he is preparing the home front, because people must be taught to hate the enemy before a war can be launched...
...Canadian-American air and sea search that ranged over 3,600 square miles of the Atlantic found nothing and was called off four days after the sinking. The rescued sailors called the fatal force that capsized their ship "a rogue wind." "It meant to kill us," asserted John Ash, 24, of Newtown, Pa. "There was nothing we could do." The proud vessel brought to the bottom the silver cup it had captured by winning a previous leg of the tall ships race. But the Marques bequeathed a legacy to future seafarers: the race's organizers hope to raise...