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...Gruner & Jahr, and Jan Hensmann, a member of the board. In the months that followed, the small group privy to the secret gathered for "reading hours" as each shipment of the black, imitation leather-bound diaries arrived. As their excitement grew, Heidemann's estimate of the number of extant volumes more than doubled. Meanwhile, in a small room near Stuttgart, Forger Kujau was laboring furiously, filling ordinary classroom notebooks purchased in East Germany with facts cobbled together from history texts and his own imagination. "Must not forget to get tickets for the Olympic Games for Eva Braun," read...
Although floor debate in the legislature will not begin on any education bill for at least a month, the basic elements of the three proposed education reform plans are already extant. Dukakis' bill will be joined by others from the former and present chairmen of the House Education Committee...
...very rare reproduction of the Code of Justinian which served as the basis of "all European law and legal scholarship for several hundred years" is the choice of Edith Henderson, curator of Langdell Library's Treasure Room. Henderson keeps this book, one of the few extant reproductions in the world, secured away, out of public view...
...voting to fund the program. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the same bill. President Reagon and the United States Congress have compromised American security and increased the probability of nuclear war by proposing and approving an expensive, ever complex, vulnerable weapon while overlooking an extant, cheap, simple and potent...
...personal life has taken in the last year. For the queasy, it should be added that many of the killings (twelve) in To Have and Have Not are perpetrated with much goriness; for the straitlaced, that the book brings to naked print practically all the four-letter words extant, contains scenes in which copulation and masturbation are impressionistically but vividly presented...