Word: held
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...locations in Central and South America. One agency was debited $47,000 for tickets taken last June. The local chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents has asked airlines to install $1,500 computer scanners at boarding gates to identify the hot tickets. Three weeks ago, when thieves held up Van Nuys travel agent Alfredo Vaca for the second time, he refused to surrender any more blanks, convinced that the losses would put him out of business. The robbers shot him dead...
...Italy another Gone With the Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that...
...startling connection was disclosed last week by June Gibbs Brown, inspector general of the Defense Department, in hearings held by Ohio Democrat John Glenn, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Brown said the practice was designed to permit the Pentagon to avoid competitive bidding in hiring consultants, since this is not required of the Library. It also skirted a law requiring Government agencies to report how much they spend on consulting fees...
...about half lent by the Prado, which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this week. Nor should they be, since such things cannot be exposed to the risk of travel. We can be abundantly grateful for what we have: the first Velazquez exhibition ever held in the U.S., comprising more than a third of his total known output, including such great works of his maturity as the Prado's portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares on horseback and Queen Mariana and early ones like The Waterseller of Seville, painted when he was around...
Despite occasional gunfire, the truce held last week, allowing a semblance of normality to return to Beirut. Its residents have watched cease-fires come and go, but one promising tip-off suggests this one will last for a while. The price of plate glass for replacing the thousands of windowpanes shattered by gunfire and artillery barrages quadrupled within hours...