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...only one big disappointment: no shoes. Otherwise, the display of opulence in the six-story Manhattan town house of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda was just what one would expect. Gold- plated lavatory fixtures. A kitchen on every floor. Three pianos and a harpsichord. Eighteen lace-covered pillows on the First Lady's richly canopied bed. Heroic ten-foot paintings of Marcos as a medal-bedecked leader and Imelda as a latter-day saint. A strobe-lighted and mirrored disco, outfitted with cushions bearing the mottoes of the Marcos millions. Example: "To be rich...
...Muller filed a request for an interview with Ethiopian Leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. Success seemed unlikely. Mengistu has been largely inaccessible to the Western press in the dozen years since he and fellow military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie. Muller had reason to hope he might be an exception. Eighteen years earlier, he and his wife Maggie McComas, now an associate editor at FORTUNE, had gone to Ethiopia to teach school as Peace Corps volunteers. Just as Muller was about to embark, word was passed along from Addis Ababa that the interview was on. He quickly rearranged his plans...
...such a marathon would clearly be a lightweight, efficient, flying fuel tank. Eighteen months and many sketches later, when Voyager assumed its basic shape, it was a textbook example of featherweight design and construction. The shell is made from quarter-inch-thick panels of Hexcel honeycomb, a resin-coated, paper-like polymer, covered with graphite fibers embedded in epoxy. The panels weigh just 4 oz. per sq. ft. but have remarkable tensile strength; the ends of the craft's thin, 110-ft. single wing can flex up and down as much as 35 ft. without breaking...
...been active academically throughout my high school years, and I felt that if I had gone to a conservatory, then I would have lost out on a liberal arts education. Academics were very important to me. Eighteen to 22 are very impressionable years, and if you give up your education then, you really can't retrieve it later...
...Eighteen thousand spectators will be able to hear Prince Charles speak on Thursday morning, "Foundation Day," as the representative of Cambridge University, Harvard's mother school. Its not known yet whether Princess Diana will accompany her husband, the bonny prince, but organizers are keeping their fingers crossed...