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...revolutionaries managed to oust Sir Eric's warlockracy with the loss of only three lives. On the morning of March 13, 45 members of the opposition New Jewel movement (Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education and Liberation) stormed Sir Eric's True Blue Defense Force barracks; they arrested 100 soldiers who were sleeping and unarmed. At the same time, Sir Eric's government ministers were routed out of bed and confined in the garden of the local prison...
...neighboring Snowmass, Colo., the ski-and-sun resort area whose population of 17,000 swells to 35,000 when the snow is on the trails from Thanksgiving through mid-April. Six years ago, studio apartments in the Lichenhearth condominium complex sold for $30,000; today, these 675-sq.-ft. jewel boxes go for $175,000. Last year Jay Kuhne, a California real estate man, parted with $275,000 for his three-bedroom town house condo on the Aspen Club grounds; this year the unit is selling for $675,000. Prices are rising by the month. A studio with sleeping alcove...
...silver model of an Arab TIM GRAHAM dhow. In Saudi Arabia, she picked up a gold incense burner, an amethyst-studded gold tray, a gold coffee jug shaped like a falcon and a pair of matching gold goblets. Prince Philip did not do badly either. His presents included several jewel-studded golden swords. The Prince, however, provided the one awkward moment on an otherwise triumphal tour. At the end of a sightseeing tour in Oman, he observed his car being driven away empty, and loudly uttered an obscenity rarely heard from royal lips...
...biologist," he concludes, "approaches nature in the form of a plant or animal and immediately begins asking questions about the innermost soul, the innermost characteristics, the true spectrum as well as the immediate traits, of the living thing." Janovy cannot offer his readers conclusive answers. But as his jewel of a journal makes clear, he never fails to ask the right questions...
...cheap hamburger and canned corn to ship back to Germany. Erivan Haub, 46, the hereditary sole owner of the company, noted that he saw in A & P "an opening to the U.S. market where Tengelmann experience can be put to profitable use." Haub, who trained with the Chicago-based Jewel supermarket chain, promised to stay out of day-to-day operations and hinted, to the delight of A & P directors, that he might supply much needed capital. A full hands-off policy is neither likely nor desirable. Noted one U.S. food-chain executive in Hamburg: "Haub will surely offer suggestions...