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...city's busy lines converge, a man urinates against a wall, loudly talking to no one in particular. On one platform, waiting passengers cover their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from the blackness of the tunnel beyond. Smoke from a fire on a distant track wafts through the station. A crowded train from the Upper West Side sits simmering on another track for 20 minutes while static from a broken speaker drowns out the conductor's incomprehensible explanation. "I'm afraid to get in that subway system even when I'm with my bodyguard," says Senator...
...Ozzie and Harriet, The Untouchables, Leave It to Beaver and The Fugitive, some of which are gathering a new generation of fans on daytime and late-night reruns. Still, with fewer affiliates and smaller financial resources than either of its two rivals, ABC was a perennial distant third in the ratings, the fractional participant in what was then called a "2 1/2-network" race...
...summit also tackled more controversial matters. Mulroney pleased the President--and the Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet...
...editor stressed last week that his changes at U.S. News will be "evolutionary," thus echoing Zuckerman's pledge not to alter the magazine precipitately and risk alienating longtime readers. With a circulation of 2 million, U.S. News runs a distant third behind TIME (U.S. circ. 4.4 million) and Newsweek (2.8 million). Ad pages dipped slightly last year, but revenues rose 8%, to $101 million. One sure change will be the magazine's look: Zuckerman has hired Designer Walter Bernard, who worked with Coffey on new graphics for the Post last fall, to restyle U.S. News...
...honors, like his heroes. When the French government sent him a decoration by mistake he would not send it back, and obstinately wore its violet rosette for the rest of his life. It was the Palmes Academiques--a serendipitous fluke, in view of his obsession with exotic scenes of distant jungles...