Word: london
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Which is not to say, not at all, that John Wilson is trying to fool anybody. If a paneled room with baronial fireplace happens to be from London's Barclays Bank, he says so, and an Oklahoma City developer is pleased indeed to buy it for $32,500. But at a preview Wilson has also eagerly explained that a particular "pub" was actually taken from a church and rearranged. "We embellish, combine, try to keep the period," he says...
...different it was a decade ago. On the momentous day when Armstrong and Aldrin touched down on the moon, all the world seemed to stand in awe. From Tokyo's Ginza to Piccadilly Circus in London, hordes of people followed the astronauts' progress. "How are they doing?" total strangers asked one another. People prayed for their safety, and countless babies were named Apollo. Millions of people clung to their radios and television sets, and newspapers broke out their largest type. Though beaten in the race to the moon, even the Russians joined in the worldwide chorus of acclaim...
...distinguished Islamic teacher from Mashad, Dr. Ali Shariati, died mysteriously in London. His students in Tehran assumed that Shariati had been murdered by SAVAK. Six months later Khomeini's son Mostafa, 49, died suddenly in Najaf a day after he had been visited by two "strangers." Khomeini has never claimed that his son was murdered, but throughout Iran it was widely assumed that SAVAK was responsible. On the occasion of his son's death, the Ayatullah wrote a letter to the Iranian people that is now regarded as the crucial document of the revolution. After denouncing the "absurdities...
Within Zimbabwe Rhodesia, the answers have not been encouraging. This week Muzorewa embarks on a trip to Washington and London to seek international recognition for his regime. He is unlikely to get it, since he has so far failed to push for badly needed internal reforms for the country's 6 million blacks or to reduce the disproportionate share of power retained by the white minority under the new constitution. And although he offered the "hand of fellowship" to the Patriotic Front upon taking office last month, he seems as determined as Ian Smith ever was to crush...
...Lloyd's of London, risk has always meant opportunity. The celebrated market of hundreds of risk-sharing insurance syndicates prides itself on being the first to offer coverage on the new, the colossal, the bizarre. But as technology grows ever more complex, the risks keep rising, and each year the amounts that Lloyd's underwriters pay out on litigious losses, from oil tanker disasters to Mafia-set arson jobs, keep swelling. Yet this year is one that even Lloyd's risk-hardened underwriters are not likely to forget...