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...would some day have in their home. Married five years ago at 18rthey outfitted their new two-bedroom house at Sears. Lisa got a Kenmore washer and dryer as birthday and Christmas presents. The couple also bought a blender, a mixer, a coffeemaker, a toaster, an iron, a shower curtain and living-room curtains from Sears. When they needed to fence in their yard, they got a Sears fence. Now the Fords are planning a family, and they are starting to visit the Winnie-the-Pooh collection of children's clothes...
...role was the one that both he and his audience seemed to enjoy best: Richard Burton, the romantic and joyous spirit. When he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the comparatively youthful age of 58, it was as if some clumsy stagehand had missed his cue and dropped the curtain before the performance had really come...
...interrogators he will not be used for propaganda: "My color doesn't have nothin' to do with it. We have problems in the U.S., but you can't solve them." Another captured airman takes the same stand: "Although black people are kind of behind the power curtain, we have just as much claim to this country as any white man. America is the black man's best hope...
...Bergerac hung over the parapet, taunting the standards of 20th century swordsmanship. Bemused spectators at the Long Beach Terrace Theater were greeted by a brass ensemble energetically fanfaring the Olympics. Instead of programs, there were pamphlets explaining the sport. A packed 3,000-seat house cheered as the curtain rose on the finals of the men's foil fencing, held on stage. The rows of dignitaries and, yes, the TV cameramen looked very dignified in black tie. The judges on the floor presented elegant tuxedoed backs to the audience, even though their feet were pragmatically shod in sneakers...
Three radio astronomers have now probed behind that celestial curtain and found a spectacular feature that has never before been closely observed: a band of gas 10 to 20 light-years thick, seemingly composed of lacy filaments, stretching up to 600 light-years above the plane of the Milky Way. The belt is the first hint that an enormous magnetic field may be far more important in shaping the core of the galaxy than had previously been imagined. Scientists have yet to gauge the full impact of the finding, but it could undermine existing theories about star formation...