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That evidently is a pet name reporters have given...
...into the San Bernardino suburbs, then back up through Waterman Canyon. In affluent North Park, a roaring wall of flame incinerated whole blocks of expensive houses, leaving nothing but ashen rectangles and soot-covered swimming pools. Four died: an elderly couple who perished as they tried to save a pet, and two other people who died of heart attacks. Some 7,000 fire fighters were struggling to contain the flames, sometimes battling winds gusting up to 90 m.p.h. At week's end their job was not yet finished...
...only for examining Soviet repression and Afghanistan but also other East European limitations on strong Helsinki principles like the "freer movement of peoples." The U.S. proposed the airing of such topics for some six weeks. After that, the conference would take up new proposals on the Soviets' pet topic of disarmament. The Soviets' timetable would have limited discussion of human rights and issues like Afghanistan to a week...
Dior spends $380,000 a year policing its 313 trademarks and employs a staff of three to work solely on counterfeiting problems. Among other odd missions, they once had to stop a Brooklyn pet shop from marketing Christian Dior T shirts for with-it canines. The Rome-based Gucci chain, which has opened 17 specialty shops in eight countries, has offices in Italy, Britain and the U.S. that deal only with trademark protection. At present, the firm's biggest peeve is a string of five false stores in Argentina; they operate under names like Luigi Gucci and Guglielmo Gucci...
Like any good rock band, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) stroked their audience with familiar stuff: the Argument Clinic, the Pet Shop (received with a roar of recognition and approval, their Greatest Hit, as it were), Nudge-Nudge, the Travel Agency, the Four Yorkshiremen, all of them done handily, wittily--and almost exactly like their records and TV shows. There were a few miscued lines, and Cleese and Palin broke up unexpectedly at the end of the Pet Shop routine, but most of the evening was predictable. Their new material...