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...warning was accidentally sent out by two Harrisburg AT&T technicians who were installing new emergency teletype equipment. Most county officials chose not to broadcast the message before they could confirm it. Even in alerted Allentown, Lehigh County's largest city, most residents took the sirens, some dating back to World War II, for fire alarms. Said one practical-minded Pennsylvanian: "An alarm system really wouldn't matter if there was a nuclear war anyway...
...pains of birth and persistent poverty, Nigeria has a special significance. Its population, estimated at 90 million, is greater than that of any country in Western Europe. One of every five or six Africans is a Nigerian. Because of its oil resources, which have made it the third largest supplier of petroleum to the U.S. (after Mexico and Britain), Nigeria is the wealthiest nation in black Africa, with a gross national product that is more than half as large as that of the other black African nations combined. Unlike many other African countries, it has a sizable class of educated...
...content to be the largest U.S. importer of Italian wines, Villa Banfi decided to put down roots in the vineyards of Tuscany. But that turned out to be no easy matter. The company had to convince some suspicious Italians that it was a serious winemaker. Local residents feared that the Americans would produce a pallid, commercial product that would damage the area's reputation for fine wine. When Villa Banfi first sought to buy land near Montalcino (pop. 5,500) in 1978, the area's growers and agricultural unions strongly objected. They remained unconvinced even after the company...
Energy Resources, a troubled Dallas oil-and gas-exploration firm, turned in the worst performance on the American Stock Exchange, falling from 8⅜ to 1¾. Massachusetts' Computer Devices, a portable-computer manufacturer that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October, had the largest decline on the over-the-counter market, dropping from...
...late-he did not even have a one-man show until he was 43-but it proved durable. So although the exhibition of more than 250 of his paintings, drawings and bronzes that opened in December at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art is the largest de Kooning retrospective ever held (it will travel to Berlin and Paris), it is still a provisional report...