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Some gangs, like the Twelfth and Wallace corner and the Twelfth and Poplar, are perpetual enemies simply because they are immediate neighbors. Other gangs "pull with" each other, living in peace side by side and making common cause against more distant gangs. North Philadelphia's Valley gang is in fact a giant entente of corners boasting nearly 1,000 members...
...Germany should be able to continue growing at a 4.5% yearly rate. If it does, the West German economy by 1985 could more than double in size and reach the 1 trillion Deutsche Mark level-about $418 billion at current rates. Meanwhile, Prognos reckons, France will still be a distant second, with a G.N.P. of about $270 billion; Britain, with a $150 billion G.N.P., will remain in third place, only slightly ahead of Italy (comparisons are difficult because of distortions in exchange rates...
...pique the curiosity of the local townfolk with the circus tent and catch their interest with oldtime medicine-show acts in the first half of the program-a jerky juggling act, for example, or the wonders of "Miraculo" the Magician, an exotic gentleman "just returned from the remote and distant shores of Long Island...
...follow such a climactic moment? Shakespeare's solution was perfect. The only comparable spot I can think of occurs in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, when the full chorus climaxes thrillingly with words about "standing before God," and is followed by the ludicrously syncopated sounds of a distant street-march...
...Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's Unionist Party had won about one-third of the 78 seats in the new Assembly. The Loyalists, composed of Protestant hardliners, and the Catholic Social, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.) formed the second largest blocs, while the nonsectarian Alliance Party finished a distant and disappointing fourth...