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...Moby Dick restaurant and a Polynesian statue out by the sidewalk. No, it is enough that front doors all along the strip are wide open in January, with just a little breeze (and a lot of money) coming across the threshold. Also that midnight is more brightly lit than midday back home, and that there is green grass, even if only in patches. "We have to wait nine months for green grass," says Jack Verbonich, who lives 30 miles outside Hibbing, in Makinen, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Hibbing on a Hot Streak | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...woman, who refused to give her name, told The Associated Press that workers spotted the problem Saturday night, when Mrs. Aquino was leading in the commission's count by 100,000 votes. By midday yesterday, Marcos had taken over the lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Fraud Mars Philippines Election | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Rioting in Port-au-Prince appeared to be quelled by midday. The streets filled with police, troops in battle gear and the Volunteers for National Security militia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Declares Seige Over Violence | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...motorcade wended its way to a Sara Lee bakery in Deerfield, Ill., McFarlane informed a White House staffer that the Egyptian plane bearing the hijackers would leave Cairo at about 4 p.m. EDT. After Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President at about midday that it might be possible to intercept the jetliner. In a private room inside the bakery, Reagan agreed in principle to the move and provided "one or two elements of guidance on the concept and on the rules." By that he apparently meant whether U.S. interceptors would shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...bottle of liquor except on the black market. When the doors opened promptly at 2, the people began inching their way to the shabby counter to buy their vodka. A young man in a padded jacket of the kind usually worn by laborers had been waiting in line since midday to purchase his bottle. "The new antialcohol measures are a hardship for us," he said. "But our country needs them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Fighting the Battle of the Bottle | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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