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...Soviet Baltic fleet, pointedly complained that an American cruiser had shown up in the Baltic Sea, and that West Germany had intensified its naval exercises there. The Soviets are on the verge of achieving their most concrete gain to date in Iceland, which is known as "the cork in the bottle" for the entire northern tier of NATO's defenses. From Iceland, U.S. Navy aircraft keep track of Russian craft moving through the Faeroe Channel and the Denmark Strait-including subs carrying Polaristype missiles targeted on U.S. cities. Last July the new coalition government of Iceland, which includes...
Jack Lynch was born in Cork in an age when peat, potatoes and parish priests meant Ireland. They are still valid symbols, and the country still feels the effects of the terrible potato famine of 1846-48, emigration and a low birth rate. Just before the famine, its population was 8,000,000; now it is 3,000,000. But today's Eire is also a land that produces electronics equipment, Pharmaceuticals and plastics, one where 500 factories have been built in the past decade...
Once a casual outline of a running chicken carved on a bottle cork could serve as a postmark. Then came names, and now, in the name of efficiency, postal authorities have begun to do away with place names. Under a system known as Area Mail Processing, mail is picked up and taken directly off to distribution centers where huge, highspeed letter sorters shuffle through thousands of pieces formerly handled by local post offices. Instead of postmarking a letter with the name of the town where it was mailed, the AMP machines simply stamp envelopes with the phrase "U.S. Postal Service...
...cultivated her hypochondria to the point of becoming a bedridden invalid for 20 years. Later, her nephew emulated her example: writing feverishly at night (he practically existed on café au lait), sleeping during the day (with the aid of veronal), Proust rarely left his bed in a cork-lined Paris room during the last 15 years of his life. On Aunt Elisabeth's bedside table, gracing her tea saucer, is one of Mme. Benoist's madeleines, carefully wrapped in plastic and replaced every few days...
...CORK LINING. Ettore Sottsass Jr., a thoughtful Milanese designer intent upon creating an environment that is a "diagram of psychic processes, a therapeutic act," is now completing a Milan apartment lined with cork-faced linoleum, without furniture save for kitchen and bath fixtures...