Word: derlying
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...between the Loop and Lake Michigan are already being developed. There, the Illinois Center Corp. is building $1.5 billion worth of offices, apartments and parking garages and hotels. Important as an extension of the business district, the project also upgrades the city with good architecture (buildings by Mies van der Rohe) and good urban design (pedestrian malls, plazas). It uses two levels of underground streets to separate trucks and autos from pedestrians, who will have the normal street level largely for themselves...
...home and forget the war" went the disk jockey's sexy, close-to-the-mike line to the G.I.s. Broadcasting from Berlin, alongside her German lover, Mildred Gillars, alias "Axis Sally," sandwiched Nazi propaganda between records by "der Bingel" Crosby. Her broadcasts eventually drew Mildred a twelve-year stretch in a federal prison for women. Out on parole in 1961, she taught French and German in a suburban school. A long-ago dropout from Ohio Wesleyan University (she had been the first coed to wear knickers on campus in 1920), Mildred, at 72, quietly finished work for her degree...
...said. "Perón has their sympathy and-I don't like the word-adoration. They felt excluded by our solutions." Lanusse, who was jailed in 1951 for his role in a coup attempt against Perón that failed to come off, added that el Líder would now "have to think, act and influence the country so that the government acts in a positive way. 1973 is not 1946. I am delivering power, but at the same time I want the one who takes it to know that he is subject to constitutional limitations...
...piece of chocolate." For the great majority, however, the Japanese proverb has applied all too well: "The child prodigy at ten has talent at 15 and is mediocre at 20." Given parental idiosyncrasies, the denial of childish games, the pressures of concert life, it is a won der any of them survive at all. Yet they do. Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn made it and, since Rubinstein's emergence, so have Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor Lorin Maazel and Pianist Lorin Hollander, among others. Three of the latest entrants in the prodigy sweepstakes...
...career, Nixon's most laudable quality was his unwavering loyalty to his political (and non-political) cronies. But as the recent White House shake-up has shown, even this unfailing loyalty is no longer sacrosanct. When Nixon's White House gestapo could no longer cover up for itself, der fuehrer exterminated the vermin...