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...Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in. The dessert: a green, seven-tier cake complete with half a dozen doves that flew out to hover over the imperial plate...
...main reason for Kirbo's decision is money. In 1975 Carter earned almost $120,000 from Carter's Warehouse, whose annual gross revenues hover around $1 million. Now harder times have come. Drought has savaged the nation's peanut crop, and business at the Carter plant is down 15% from last year. Billy Carter recently valued the business at $3.5 million, which would make the President's share worth roughly $2.3 million. As for an asking price, Kirbo says, "I'm going to get as much as I can. It will be strictly a cold...
...rainbow in a bag of green silk, and Phileas Fogg embarked on his 80-day voyage around the world dangling from a sphere of hot air. Today the sport of ballooning is enjoying a buoyant renaissance. Rotund flying machines with names like The Artful Dodger, Dante and Pollution Solution hover over golf courses and horse pastures, lifting the spirit and ornamenting the air-bright Christmas balls in the summer...
...wares. The teachers have now brought those wares to the American market: lessons that will lead trainees to the Siddhis, or supernatural powers. These include the ability to walk through walls, feel infinite compassion, become invisible. But the most controversial of the Siddhis is levitation-the ability to hover in midair and fly around the room, as one TM teacher puts it, "like Peter...
...word in court-house design. But inside those acoustically balanced halls of justice, the personnel and practices of Middlesex County government have not changed much since the bad old days when men in pin-striped suits traded political favors in smoke-filled rooms. Balding attorneys and paunchy politicians still hover in the hallways. Superior Court judges cling to their traditional summer long vacations even though the new building's air-conditioning system makes the respite obsolete. And the triumvirate of commissioners empowered to appoint most of the county's 2200 employees feuds with itself more bitterly than ever...