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Friday, November 11th: The Au Bon Pain bakery at Holyoke Center lost its four silver wastebins sometime between 2 and 5 a.m. The chrome coated receptacles which were kept outside the bakery, are valued at $135 each...
...what they convey. Although we may be fleetingly thrilled, we are surely not satisfied with what fashionable ulterior design offers today. The model living room, as depicted in the stores and decorator magazines, has become America's disaster area. We have a choice between bizarrely abstract furnishings in chrome or lacquer, alienated from living reality, and eclectic kitsch heaped on like the toppings on ice cream sundaes-not much of a choice. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...better to lament the tyranny of appearance than through such understated anecdotes, rendered in prose that, despite occasional embarrassments ("Everything in the room seems to have pitted tubular chrome legs"), is reminiscent of Updike...
...Because the sanctions were never imposed uniformly by all nations, the target countries evaded the embargoes and avoided economic collapse by rerouting their trade through sympathetic allies or neutrals. Italy bought vital oil supplies from the U.S., which was not a member of the League of Nations. Rhodesia funneled chrome shipments and other exports through South Africa and Mozambique, where they were resold to other countries. Cuba eased its economic troubles by accepting aid from the Soviet Union...
...three agreements worth some $5.5 million in training and food, bringing total U.S. aid to Zimbabwe to $42.7 million in 1982. Even with such aid, a severe drought is expected to reduce the nation's agricultural output this year by 20%, and depressed prices for such exports as chrome, nickel and copper have led bankers to predict a sharp slowing of Zimbabwe's economic growth, to 3% or less in the coming year from a robust 8% just last year...