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...used a waffle iron to make their first soles. (The now famous Swoosh trademark on the side of the shoes was designed by an art student for $35.) Nike's sales sprinted from $270 million in 1980 to $920 million in 1984. But the firm, named after the Greek goddess of victory, had trouble managing its explosive growth. Not long after the company tried to meet increased demand by assigning more production to Chinese factories in 1985, Nike's quality inspectors were rejecting four out of five of the Chinese-made shoes. Nike's push to satisfy the expanding mass...
...sinking into deep economic troubles, Hitler staged an absurd "beer-hall putsch" and led a march through Munich. He was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison (he served nine months). "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over," he declared at his trial, "but the goddess of the eternal court of history acquits...
...project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint project's logo, which features a soaring goose, and has named the mission Juno, in honor of the Roman goddess of marriage...
Walesa and his allies are discovering the cruelty of the ironic punishment that the Greek goddess Nemesis reserved for her cheekiest victims: granting their very desires. Solidarity's success at the polls exposes the fact that for all its popularity, it has no program or philosophy. Its leaders are dancing desperately to avoid being forced to share power with the Communists. It is as if the penalty one pays for losing an election in Poland is having to be in power...
...bloody assault by Deng's armed troops ended all that, and also the Goddess of Democracy, which was crushed by a tank once the troops gained control of the square. Even so, the events of the past seven weeks immunized vast numbers of people against the traditional propaganda bromides and convinced them that the government was not invulnerable: it was only an agency of brutal power. If the student campaign failed, it at least succeeded in forging a historic new link between China's intellectual community and its masses. As an observer said earlier in the week, "It will...