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IT'S BIG DADDY!" WITH THAT PROnouncement, applause filled the Stadium Club overlooking one end zone of Texas Stadium. An hour after his big-D Dallas Cowboys had little-d demolished the Green Bay Packers 38-27 in the N.F.C. championship game, owner Jerry Jones walked into the room to...
New technology is enabling Ma Bell to muscle back into the local markets turned over to the Baby Bells by the 1984 court-ordered divestiture. It can do this now by offering cellular-phone service and later by setting up networks of PCS (personal-communication services) phones. These are new...
He does not disappoint. His memoir, In Confidence, is a no-pulled-punches page turner of a diplomatic history, spiced with anecdotes and insights. He recounts how Stalin once told his Ambassador to the U.S., Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during...
The National Security Agency unwrapped one of its oldest secrets -- Project Venona, a World War II code-breaking effort that cracked Soviet cables and revealed the existence of an extensive spy network in the U.S. to steal classified nuclear information. Among the members of the Soviet ring apparently identified in...
Killer bees, it turns out, are not the most menacing marauders to hail from South America. Their less publicized cousins the fire ants are more widespread in the U.S., more destructive and, so far, deadlier. The antagonistic ants have been harassing people, mostly in the South, for decades -- ruining picnics...