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...uncomfortably congested. In addition, passengers find it frustrating to make reservations by telephone because the lines always seem to be busy. Says Harold Binder, a travel agent at Trade Mark Tours of Miami: "We just can't get through." Some resourceful customers have discovered a solution: stay up past midnight before calling...
...necessarily add up to a great darkening. Besides, Braun calculators are terrific looking; black dinner jackets are preferable to sky blue dinner jackets; better a posturing young poet, surely, than a buttondown teenage arbitrager in chinos. But why all black and why now? The color is gunpowder and midnight; the message is menace and highly private pleasure. --By Kurt Andersen
...beyond 7:15 pm if they could, with 72 percent saying they would do so more than 5 days a week. Moreover, another recent UC survey—helpful in securing the promise for a 24-hour library—found that 97 percent of students are up past midnight and more than half are up past 2 a.m. That leaves seven hours between dining hall closing time and half of students’ bedttime. It is important that the UC and HUDS consider these numbers. Extending hours to 8:30 p.m. will allow for more flexibility...
Friends! Do you wake up dead each morning because you watched another of those old-fashioned westerns on the late show? Have you stayed up past midnight to see High Noon ? Did you miss the bus to work because you caught Stagecoach at 3 a.m.? Well, suffer from horse-opera hangover no more! Now there's Silverado, the Cuisinart western! Silverado dices, splices, chops, co-opts, hones and clones every oater archetype in just 2 hr. 13 min.; that's less than 1% of the time it would take you to sit through the collected works of John Wayne...
...Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sinking in Auckland Harbor after a midnight bombing on July 10, witnesses spotted a figure in a frogman's outfit wading ashore nearby and climbing into a camper. Last week a French-speaking couple traveling around New Zealand in a van were arrested on arson and murder charges in connection with the sabotage, which killed Crew Member Fernando Pereira. Although the couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued...