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...Richard Flood, headmaster at Noble and Greenough and head hockey coach, calls Janfaza "tremendously competitive and enthusiastic...
...other winners are NASA's appropriately high-tech logo and graphic system; a coordinated National Park Service pamphlet design; the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program; the GSA program for placing artworks in public buildings; the Charles River flood control, navigation improvement and pollution abatement; a public housing project in Charleston, S.C.; and an urban redevelopment program in St. Paul...
...abduction of Father Jerzy Popieluszko remains subdued. Poles have grown accustomed to switching on the state-controlled radio broadcast at 10:30 every night and listening to the latest installment of death and deception as defense attorneys and prosecutors alike in Torun's Courtroom 40 continue to tolerate a flood of contradictions from the witness stand. Perhaps to divert attention from Torun, early last week Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski paid an unprecedented visit to the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where the banned trade union Solidarity had its roots. There he talked with workers about high food prices while hunching over work...
...view in period movies like Chinatown and Chariots of Fire. They also show up with some regularity in fashion layouts of Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The oldtimers first started to become salable, however, with the late '70s interest in retro clothes and in reaction to the flood of maddeningly accurate quartz and digital models available at the local pharmacy. "You can get a wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what else is there? The only...
First they arrived in a trickle, which quickly became an ever increasing stream, then a flood. Gaunt, starving, often dressed in rags, thousands of Ethiopian refugees continued to stagger across the drought-stricken northern wastelands of their country last week. Their destination was neighboring Sudan. On their heels came disturbing reports of Ethiopian air force planes strafing refugee columns and bombing villages. As makeshift relief camps sprang up and swelled with alarming rapidity on the Sudanese side of the border, yet another specter began to haunt Africa: the threat that the exodus of starving people would overwhelm the meager resources...