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Before this week is out, more than 12,000 airplanes and 1 million onlooking enthusiasts will flock to the Experimental Aircraft Association convention, centered in Oshkosh but splayed out over the lush Wisconsin landscape from Fond du Lac to Appleton and Green Bay. This remarkable event was begun in a basement 42 years ago by flyer Paul Poberezny, the son of a Ukrainian immigrant. Involving 400 types of aircraft, it is judged by some to be the world's biggest convention and aviation's most diversified air show, dwarfing state fairs and even Woodstock '94, drawing people from...
Americans act out their ambivalence about the family without ever owning up to it. Millions adhere to creeds that are militantly "pro-family." But at the same time millions flock to therapy groups that offer to heal the "inner child" from damage inflicted by family life. Legions of women band together to revive the self-esteem they lost in supposedly loving relationships and to learn to love a little less. We are all, it is often said, "in recovery." And from what? Our families, in most cases...
Tourists and shoppers flock instead to the McDonald's in Pushkin Square or to Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's Fifth Avenue. There, dazzling neon signs invite motorists and pedestrians to savor the sensations of a swinging metropolis awash in restaurants, nightclubs and luxury boutiques. This is the new Russian capital, Moscow as Vegas of the North...
After the Ravenswood Aluminum Co. locked out members of the USW from a mill in West Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...
...leading his flock into the pit," Wasinger says...