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...constantly raises his eyebrows, squirms, pedantically refers to Nick as "the child" and misses the humor in every one of Murray's gibes. In one very funny scene, O'Brien feigns horror at Nick's doll whose well-endowed breasts light up, but with prurient delight, he sneaks a peak...
...President McKinley never visited Mount McKinley. It would be interesting to see if other Alaskan landmarks-Mount Foraker, Jefferson Peak, Fillmore Peak, Mount Cleveland, Grant Peak, Lincoln Island, Wilson Creek or Point Hayes-were visited by people for whom they were named. All information I find indicates they were...
...From its peak in 1969, when sales totaled $28 million, the firm slid deeper into trouble until its creditors forced it into reorganization. Only last week did the big flagship Manhattan store attract the kind of crowds it had needed to survive. Thousands flocked to its doors, some to hunt bargains in the terminal close-out sale, others just to be there before lights in the paneled rooms went out for good. As the incongruously jaunty sales ads put it, "Well, Ezra, all good things must come...
...team will need a determined effort to achieve national caliber next year, Seidler said yesterday. "But that's not out of reach," she added. Howard said the team is "ready to peak, and to be a lot more disciplined...
...every American schoolchild knows, the highest mountain in North America is Alaska's Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 ft., a mere 8,708 ft. lower than the Himalayas' Mount Everest). But centuries before paleface cartographers gave the peak that name, Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos called it by another: Denali, or "the Great One" in the Athabascan Indian dialect. Now native Alaskans are lobbying hard to restore the original Indian name. The state legislature has adopted a resolution to rechristen the mountain Denali, and both Governor Jay Hammond and Senator Mike Gravel are campaigning to persuade...