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...that time, the British airwaves were calcified in good taste. The only rock 'n' roll reached England from the piratic Radio Luxembourg. But BBC welcomed the occasional pop group, and the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, knew it could make them. The band auditioned for producer Peter Pilbeam, who reported with guarded enthusiasm: "an unusual group ... with a tendency to play music." Rating the Beatles' singers, Pilbeam wrote, "John Lennon: yes; Paul McCartney: no." Anyway, they...
...Aamodt, whose ski-coach father used to blindfold him on skis to teach him the feel of the snow, he is fast succeeding the Austrian Marc Girardelli, who competes for Luxembourg, as the world's best all-around skier. Leading in World Cup points, the charismatic Norwegian skis both downhill and slalom and could well rack up more medals this week. "In Norway we used to have the attitude that you should not do something special -- or at least you should not think you are special," Aamodt said. "But now we are developing a winner's attitude...
Benelux, that picture-postcard association of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, sets the world standard for cooperative neighborliness. Unfortunately, however, the Arab Middle East does not look very much like Benelux. Eighteen states, and not a single functioning democracy. Among them, such spectacular failures in ordinary civil decency, let alone "great tolerance" and "real freedom," as Lebanon and Iraq...
Rainwater's research in Europe and the U.S. will continue at or above its current pace, said Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden, the department's current chair. Since 1983, Rainwater has been research director of the Luxembourg Income Study...
Coleman's DEA front in Nicosia, called the Eurame Trading Co. Ltd., was located on the top floor of a high-rise apartment near the U.S. embassy. He says the intelligence agency paid him with unsigned Visa traveler's checks issued by B.C.C.I. in Luxembourg. Additionally, the DEA country attache in Cyprus, Michael Hurley, kept a drawer full of cash in his office at the embassy, which he parceled out to Coleman and to a parade of confidential informants, known by such nicknames as "Rambo Dreamer," "Taxi George" and "Fadi the Captain." Hurley admitted in a Justice Department affidavit that...