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...intrigue: clandestine meetings of unrepentant Nazis, secret trips across a Communist border, bags of money tossed from one speeding car to another. What made Stern's investigation so notable, however, was that the magazine exposed its own management's gullibility in what it labeled "the biggest flop of German press history": the purchase, for $3.8 million, and publication of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler...
...scientists study El Niño, they are finding that it is really a much broader disturbance of ocean currents and winds that ranges far across the Pacific and even beyond. One aspect of this larger phenomenon is an event weather scientists call the southern oscillation, a flip-flop-like reversal of atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high...
...pledged after her primary loss to support Washington, but characteristically, changed her mind. Washington said he was "thunderstruck" at the mayor's decision, but in perspective, her action doesn't seem all that shocking. Four years ago, at the beginning of her term, Byrne had done a similar flip-flop, with less fanfare...
...Love Story (1971), then dropped out of the business during her marriage to the late Steve McQueen. In the late 1970s, she returned to do such pictures as Convoy, Players and Just Tell Me What You Want, the first two critical failures and the last a box-office flop. The Winds of War may be a turning point in her career, for better or for worse. "Whatever way it goes, it will be rather decisive," she says, "and that's a horrible pressure. I'm sick just talking about it. I've been given a great shot...
...taped her first pop album in London and is already nervous about the industry and audience response. "Lots of performers' first albums aren't well received, and you never hear about it," she says, "but I won't be able to have a quiet flop...