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...western Pennsylvania. From the abduction of the youngest sister, Deride a "strangely haunted child" to the "final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
...White House denies that there has been any change in policy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes last week described a New York Times story that asserted the Administration wanted to ease the embargo as "basically not true." Other sources in the Government, however, suspect that the story was a trial balloon floated by the White House itself. And even one presidential aide admitted (privately) that his boss "would very much like to lift these sanctions...
Schlafly and her supporters celebrated at a balloon-festooned Over-the-Rainbow party, where the 1,400 guests pledged allegiance to the flag and listened to some 30 victory speeches. Said Conservative Digest Editor John Lofton: "I salute you fellows for doing to the ERA what Menachem Begin is doing to the P.L.O." And they applauded "special service" awards given to outstanding ERA opponents, among them the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Under Secretary of State James Buckley and Senator Jesse Helms...
...began as a "casual balloon" launched by American physicians during a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Asked the Americans: Why not have doctors from the two superpowers discuss on Soviet television the medical consequences of nuclear war? "Why not?" Dobrynin responded. The result, an unprecedented hourlong program watched by an estimated 50 million people, attracted so much interest that Soviet authorities rebroadcast it last week...
...main ways that Californians have been financing the state's housing boom is with short-term loans in which virtually all of the principal comes due in a single so-called balloon payment, usually within two to five years. Homeowners had assumed that their houses would continue appreciating in value and that they would be able to borrow against the equity to pay off the balloon loan. But prices are now stagnating, and new loans are hard to get. Nearly $500 million of these balloon mortgages are coming due in California this year, and Shulman and other economists fear...