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...Christian who has everything, Oxford Press offers the Washburn College Bible, a dressed-up King James Version with 66 full-color reproductions of masterpieces from Giotto to Rouault and three screen prints by Josef Albers: $3,500 for a red leather-bound three-volume "limited edition" in a cloth-covered redwood case. A scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases...
...like terrified bison running for their lives, for fear the school at their backs would grab them and eat them up one more time. It wasn't until he caught the downtown A that he saw what they had done with their childhood. They had wrapped it in dark cloth, sneaked it underground and thrown it all over the trains. Like blazing jewels, the subway cars burst from the tunnels to the platforms shining with the recognizable artifacts of childhood: fantasy, magic, ego, energy, humor and point. They had taken it all underground...
...most consistently profitable international airlines (1980 earnings: $23 million). Swissair's strategy is to pamper its passengers, especially business travelers, who make up an astonishing two-thirds of its customers within Europe. First-class flyers, for example, sink into seats covered in brown leather instead of common cloth, and they can listen to music over stereo headsets rather than through plastic earplugs...
...brick building at the University of Lodz, eleven student strike leaders and four government negotiators faced each other over two green cloth-covered tables. On one wall hung a six-foot white paper cross; on the others posters bearing slogans of protest and defiance. At 4 p.m. Sociology Student Krzysztof Pakulski began to read a complicated agreement that had been hammered out and haggled over during two weeks of often hot-tempered negotiations, and which now signaled the end of a spreading student strike. When the accord was signed an hour later, triumphant cheers erupted from the 800 students assembled...
...entitled to give any kind of bash they felt like-and could afford. Said Inaugural Co-Chairman Robert Gray: "There weren't any Government funds. These were citizens who wanted to celebrate. Just because we're conservative doesn't mean we should run around in sack cloth and ashes when we want to celebrate." Added Special Trade Representative Bill Brock: "It happens only once every four years. They deserve a good time...