Word: bowed
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...building. Those blazes were contained, and there were no injuries. After determining that large quantities of a flammable liquid had been splashed on walls throughout the building and finding several unused crude paper torches, investigators quickly blamed the fires on arsonists. UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal called for a full investigation of what he termed "a criminal act." Said he: "I am asking everyone to do all they can so that we can find out the reasons for the fire and the identities of the person or persons at the root of this...
...blazes. Many UNESCO staff members thought that someone inside the organization had hoped to destroy potentially embarrassing documents. Precisely what sort of records was hard to say, given the long list of complaints against the agency. Many Western nations have strenuously objected to its politicization under M'Bow. In 1975 Soviet bloc and Third World nations provoked a walkout by the U.S., Israel and ten other Western nations when they voted to equate Zionism with racism. The same majority has been trying to use UNESCO to muzzle the press through proposed programs such as the licensing of reporters...
Each of them was the Marilyn Monroe of her day, so Photographer Richard Avedon was assigned to shoot the real Marilyn posing as Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Lillian Russell for a 1958 spread in LIFE. Later, Avedon mislaid the negatives. Then, last December, as he was unpacking books in the library of his new home at Montauk, N.Y., out plopped the photos. He was not so fond of the Dietrich on second viewing, but the four others still charmed him, and he is issuing them as posters at $100 a set ($200 signed). The pictures...
...Hormuz open, has four ships in the Gulf, in addition to a 30-ship flotilla, led by the aircraft carrier Midway, in the Indian Ocean. Early last week the U.S. destroyer Lawrence, on duty near the entrance to the strait, fired warning shots when an unidentified vessel crossed its bow at a distance of about a mile. That same day the Lawrence fired into the air in front of a low-flying Iranian patrol plane and broadcast a warning to an Iranian frigate after the plane and the ship came within 2½ miles of the American destroyer. Under orders...
Neill E. Norman '84 was having a drink in the Bow and Arrow. A stranger took some pictures of him to send to New York, and within two weeks he was in Barbados...