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...formation after another of C-141s lumbered 1,000 ft. overhead at 125 m.p.h., spewing parachutists from both sides, as escort planes darted above them. It was an explosion, an inundation, a blizzard of men from the sky, lasting less than five minutes...
...trade in this country, but we are trying little by little to break it." That plan has focused recently on efforts by a Stevens business associate, American Entrepreneur Maurice Templesman, to help Sierra Leone get financing from the World Bank for an ambitious deep diamond-mining venture. A sometime escort of Jackie Onassis, Templesman has hired New York Lawyer Theodore Sorensen, once the chief speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, to represent his interests. In Freetown, it is widely suspected that Stevens takes his cut of his country's dealings with De Beers. That rumor may have prompted the angry...
...weekend evening, the park is crowded with record buyers, traders and tape pirates, who carry a list of merchandise and escort a customer to a private apartment where money and merchandise change hands. The result of this underhanded commerce is a surprisingly timely taste for Western trends. One habitué of the park recently boasted of owning "two Sex Pistols records and an Ian Dury." Another effect is more striking: tolerance-unofficial, of course-of the record deals, and an attempt to give Soviet pop some Western-style spin...
...short, beefy man strolled into the Brooklyn House of Detention, signed the visitors' log-"Michael Schwartz" -and asked to see his client. While the lawyer waited in a glass-enclosed meeting room on the first floor, a guard went to escort the prisoner down from his maximum-security cell on the tenth floor. The prisoner, clad in a jumpsuit and in need of a shave, greeted Schwartz, and the two began conferring in private. During their talk, the guards changed shifts; shortly thereafter, the new guards watched a clean-shaven man in a gray tweed suit sign out-"Michael...
...industry is counterattacking. All three major companies are bringing out new smaller cars beginning this fall. Chrysler has its K cars, which are similar in size to GM's compact X cars. Ford will bring out its new Escort and Mercury Lynx. GM will continue downsizing its fleet with the introduction of its J car subcompacts...