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...funereal pall hung over the wood-paneled conference room of the headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party in Bonn. Even Chancellor Helmut Kohl's characteristic good humor had given way to a gloomy frown as he contemplated the party's surprising defeat the previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both...
...mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson was leading by an infinitesimal 171 votes. He was forced to wait until Friday afternoon for all the ballots to be counted. Only then could he breathe easier: the final tally put him ahead...
...slight frown passes quickly as he describes the detail on an exactreplica of an 15th century English plaster ceiling in the Hyde Room, which houses a collection emphasizing the work of the Samuel Johnson. James Boswell circle. Books here and elsewhere will stand as Bond's permanent legacy-the brilliant acquisition he has made for Harvard...
...second drawing is of a bright orange skeleton with tears in its eyes and a grim mouth in an open frown. "I drew this after the death of my mother. I ate leaves then. That is why there is a tree in the picture...
...browsers a chance to weigh both her grin and her grimace. The magazine's 250,000 copies were split between the two faces of Jane, and news dealers gave each cover equal rack space. The results? In the city center (home of high taxes and declining services), the frown won out, 5 to 4. Ah, but in the grassy suburbs (home of better schools and less violence), the grin took it in a breeze...