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...today's game, is a typical encounter with the 145-year-old Rajah, a football team first dances to a recording of the lively "Mynah Bird Hop." Then the quarterback listens to the soothing "Mynah Bird Song," after which he wills his team's victory--Rajah standing on his palm or shoulder as witness...
With its pastel-colored stucco buildings, palm-lined harbor and sandy beaches, this city nestled in gentle foothills on the Atlantic Coast used to be known as the Rio de Janeiro of Africa. Now, in most respects, Luanda is a ghost of its former self. In the once thriving downtown, at least two-thirds of the stores have closed. Merchants, unable to purchase supplies, have boarded their doors. The few shops that remain open display almost their entire stock in the front window. Prices are inflated: in one showcase, a pair of secondhand children's trousers was marked...
...GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE STILL BATTING 1.000 REGARDING ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING ME. AS USUAL YOUR INFORMATION STINKS. I NEED A HOUSE AND A NIGHTCLUB IN PALM BEACH LIKE YOU NEED A TUMOR...
After the long weeks of buildup, of insisting upon his innocence, of accusing Government officials of plotting his downfall, of vowing that he would fight to the end, the denouement of the Spiro Agnew debacle came with stunning swiftness. His hands trembling slightly and his Palm Springs tan bleached white with tension, Agnew walked into a Baltimore courtroom last week and admitted that he had falsified his income tax in 1967. When he emerged half an hour later, Agnew had been transformed from Vice President of the United States into a convicted felon...
...surveillance is not enough. They have taken refuge from crime inside enclaves that, like medieval towns, are surrounded by walls. The homes inside are generally protected by alarms as well. Such "gated-off" compounds include the likes of MountainGate (pop. 400), a condominium complex in Southern California, and the Palm Beach County community of Golf (pop. 110) in Florida...