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...When the Illinois house put the amendment to a vote, it was 103-72 in favor, four yes votes shy of passage. At week's end the senate fell five votes short of a three-fifths majority, with a vote of 31-27 in favor. Lamented State Senator Dawn Clark Netsch: "What is really distressing is that Illinois remains the only northern industrial state not to ratify...
...dawn of the computer era in the 1950s, nobody worried much about getting information from one computer to another. The earliest machines were housed in air-conditioned rooms, and operators had to work close by in order to use them. The proliferation of remote terminals in the 1970s, though, allowed people to use the computer from locations scattered around an office. But the terminals usually had to be made by the same manufacturer and could not operate independently of the central unit...
...brought-and took home-demonstrators from hundreds of U.S. cities. One energetic Boston contingent, making the 208-mile pilgrimage in true youthful American fashion, arrived in a bicycle convoy. From just over the East River, a group bent on even more creative travel danced across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn Saturday...
...places where you can go down 5 ft. and have a fine dry foxhole. One British correspondent wrote that his most vivid memory of the first 48 hours was "the digging, the terrible digging. From the moment that we reached the company positions, every man dug ceaselessly, from dawn to dusk and into the night again, interrupted only by the constant air-raid warnings. But deep dugouts make troops almost immune to all but direct hits, and deep dugouts we have dug." Another correspondent was given a piece of corrugated iron by a friendly Falklander to cover his foxhole, along...
...seat theater of the Palais des Festivals, where the two dozen official selections are shown, film buffs file in at 1 in the morning for Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's rendering of Wagner's Parsifal. Nearly five hours later they stagger out into the dawn's hazy light, exhausted and exhilarated. In midafternoon, Menahem Golan, the Israeli producer who now heads his own distribution company, sits on a teeming Carlton terrace flanked by Stalin-era-size posters of his stars: Faye Dunaway, Robert Mitchum, Brooke Shields, Lou Ferrigno. "I have sold a million dollars in film...