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Japan came under intense criticism for flooding the U.S. with its products while blocking imports. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We need to retaliate against Japan. They deserve it." Sensing a trade war brewing, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone appeared on Japanese television in April to ask his countrymen for help. Said he: "If each Japanese buys $100 in foreign goods, the increase in imports from that would amount to $12 billion, and foreign countries would be happy...
...time, between World War I and World War II, segregation concentrated all levels of black society in Grand Boulevard, and a thriving nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...
...except a few elderly loyalists and some young art historians with a revisionist glint in their eyes. He had been dropped from the list, an act comparable to (though, happily, not as final as) the dismantling of that masterpiece of New York public architecture, McKim, Mead and White's Pennsylvania Station. However, work did survive, though unconsulted. Few visits were paid to his Shaw monument on Boston Common, the most intensely felt image of military commemoration ever made by an American; few Manhattanites bestowed more than a glance at his monuments to Admiral Farragut and General Sherman. Curators who, given...
...article on the ENIAC did not report that the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratories contracted with the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania to do the mind-numbing mathematics necessary for calculating trajectories. As soon as the project was completed, the ENIAC was moved to the BRL. Its progress and subsequent utilization were under the direct supervision of a series of BRL commanders, i.e., then Colonels Hermann Zornig, Leslie Simon and Alden Taber. Norman T. Dennis Colonel,U.S.A. (ret.) Pensacola, Fla. Nigeria's New Start...
...National Organization for Women last July, Eleanor Smeal vowed to take the depleted and discouraged women's movement "back into the streets." In Washington last week, Smeal and more than 80,000 feminists from as far away as Texas and Minnesota did just that with a march along Pennsylvania Avenue to reaffirm their support for legal abortion and birth control. It was the largest women's rights demonstration since a 1978 rally for the never ratified Equal Rights Amendment, and the number of marchers completely eclipsed the 36,000 who attended Washington's annual antiabortion protest in January. The march...