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Which is better, a hamburger cooked on a griddle or one broiled over a flame? The question sounds like a backyard debating topic for a summer afternoon. Yet business has been slow of late in the $35 billion fast-food industry, and last week the issue had burgerdom's three leviathans in a sizzle. Tempers flared when the Burger King Corp. of Miami, the nation's second largest fast-food restaurant chain (3,500 outlets, $2.3 billion in 1981 sales), launched a provocative $19 million network television ad blitz designed both to grab off a bite...
...front doorstep of a three-story, white stucco mansion that houses the Polish embassy in the leafy Kirchenfeld neighborhood of Bern. Then the policeman climbed back into his beige Volkswagen and slowly drove away. Seconds later, the parcel exploded. The front door of the residence dissolved in smoke and flame, and some 20 members of an elite Bern police squad burst into the building. About eight explosions were heard as tear gas and percussion grenades detonated. Within twelve minutes, the gray-uniformed, red-helmeted troopers had captured and handcuffed four Polish terrorists and were speeding them down the city...
NEWS UPDATE: This article is reprinted from the July 9, 1982 issue of the Crimson. Since it first appeared, Catherine Oxenberg was widely reported as having split her summer between her new film on Lady Diana and her new flame, Manuel Prado, "Spain's number-one goal-scoring polo player...
Only imagination is needed, and a concentration of spirit, to make Ibsen's great dramas burst into bright flame. This brushfire production, imported to Broadway from Washington's Kennedy Center, dampens the spirit of the text and absolutely extinguishes its immediacy. Burnt down to basic melodrama, Ghosts creaks like a mediocre television serial. Its terrible symmetry has here all the impact of a bad night at Falcon Crest...
...odious mother and nothing for herself. While her fiance rushes off to get drunk, the bride-to-be makes love to Stavros in her wedding gown and precipitates an unforgettable four-wall fray for all. Yet all's wealthy that ends wealthy. While his old flame marries on her own terms (he is not invited to the wedding), Stavros, now 42, lands a 40% interest in Sarrafian. At war's end he sets off for Greece in all the rugs-to-riches splendor of the returning immigrant...