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...window sashes, along with twelve pieces of concrete block, 3½ chairs and the plans, were offered in a benefit auction for Channel 13, New York City's public television station. The buyer: Tom Monaghan, 47, ebullient owner of the Detroit Tigers, head of the 1,450-store Domino's Pizza empire and, by his own account, the world's leading Frank Lloyd Wright fanatic since he was twelve years old. He beat out prospective purchasers from across the U.S. and the Philippines with...
...five years. American children still aren't taught in Russian. Jebsen says El Salvador is of strategic importance, but this simply isn't the case. El Salvador itself is of no military importance; it is only important because of its proximity to the Panama Canal. Thus Jebsen argues the domino theory. But El Salvador only borders Guatemala and Honduras, two countries that already have unstable dictatorships...
...another issue will top the agenda. Alone among the NATO allies destined to receive new medium-range missiles. Holland has not yet made a final decision to accept them. Amid rising fears that the powerful Dutch peace movement could persuade Parliament to reject the deployment, possibly producing a domino effect of repudiation by other NATO countries, the Reagan Administration is counting on Lubbers to hold the line...
...approach when he told LIFE magazine in 1956 that "if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost." Still Eisenhower and Dulles backed away when Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest later that year to crush the Hungarian uprising. Eisenhower contributed another idea when he invoked the domino theory in 1954 to justify U.S. economic aid to South Viet Nam. The notion that the fall of one nation to Communist control would send adjacent countries toppling like dominoes lined up in a row was used in the 1960s to explain U.S. military intervention in Viet...
ONCE ACTIVATED, Connery goes into is time-honored routine. There is the usual interlay with the villain: an early duel in a Cannes casino at a complex video game (a modern update of a baccarat table); a direct confrontation over Largo's innocent girlfriend Domino (Kim Basinger); and finally the obligatory showdown. The victory for the old days--for viewers and characters alike--is best summed up by "Q" (Alec McCowen), Bond's chief gadget provider. "The bureaucrats are now running the place; you can't do anything without a computer okaying it. Everything's by the book," he laments...