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...revolutionary who died in Mexico shortly after a Stalinist agent put the point of an ice ax through his head. Frida initiated the affair with Trotsky, not because she found "Piochitas" (little goatee) attractive but because she thought the trysts would be the perfect response to Rivera's fling with her sister...
...make the clamoring strings sink to a mutter, to wave again, and hear the brass crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...
...with earnings of more than $3 billion in 1982), International Business Machines produces some 65% of the country's mainframe business computers and an estimated 62% of those sold worldwide. But in one area IBM had long been conspicuously absent. Except for a brief, abortive fling in the mid-1970s at selling a small desktop machine called the model 5100 (cost: up to nearly $20,000), the corporation left the personal computer field to upstart firms like Apple and Tandy...
...sidekick, Stephen Arlington, 34, a former Navy frogman in Viet Nam, who shared a Hetrick enthusiasm: scuba diving. The two often flew off to Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean and took trips to the Bahamas on Hetrick's 46-ft. trawler, the Highland Fling, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hetrick also owned five airplanes and a 53-ft. yacht, the Ivory. Arrington, said a former Morgan employee, was "a kind of super gofer" for Hetrick...
Last week, after De Lorean had turned out fewer than 10,000 cars in a little more than 21 months, the Thatcher government ordered the plant shut down. With that, some of the plant's remaining 35 employees had a last fling, taking the wheel of De Lorean's cars, called the DMC-12 (after De Lorean Motor Co.), for a few turns around the premises. Hundreds of other workers in Northern Ireland stood to lose their jobs with companies that supplied the factory, a tragic circumstance for a place that has an unemployment rate of about...