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...Wore Red presents this unusual theater of war in compact scenes and entertaining dialogue. Says a matador out to impress the author with his knowledge of local history: "This is where the famous bandit Luis Candelas used to hide, Aline. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess...
...dominated business, he once criticized U.S. policy on Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once dubbed "the Brat" is steering Citicorp on a radically different course from the one established by his expansion-minded predecessor, Walter Wriston...
Call it a case of deflated consumer attraction. Since March 1986, Ford has offered a driver-side, anticollision air bag as an $815 safety option on its Tempo and Mercury Topaz compact autos, which sell for a base price of about $9,000. Apparently the bag option has little allure for many buyers, who have bought the safety devices on only 2% of the 189,000 Tempo and Topaz cars sold since the 1987 model year began. Last week Ford tried to pump new life into its air bags by slashing the price to $295. The company hopes that will...
Americans are also sentimental, some would say gullible. Year after year, they enter into a compact with their leaders -- and trust them. Yet in the past two decades, that trust has often been betrayed; each time, Americans are disappointed and disillusioned anew. Last week, as a general turned businessman discussed lucrative foreign intrigues and the evening news flashed pictures of a presidential candidate on a yacht called Monkey Business, it was easy to feel duped, hard not to feel cynical...
...Northwestern University, "people were glum. There hadn't been a breakthrough in a long time. Funding was drying up. This has sent everyone back into the field with a new burst of enthusiasm." Although Kamerlingh Onnes envisioned early on that his discovery might pave the way for extremely powerful, compact electromagnets, he and other experimenters were stymied by a strange phenomenon: as soon as enough current was flowing through the then known superconductors (lead, tin and mercury, among others) to generate significant magnetic fields, the metals lost their superconductivity...