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Life inside the embassy compound, meanwhile, appeared to be settling into an uneasy routine. Among the ambassadors, all were said to be standing up well under the pressure, except one: Venezuela's Virgilio Lovera, 63, a gregarious political appointee diplomat who, at one point last week, was treated by...
The Justice Department has a roster of some 18,000 federal cons who, all told, owe about $80 million in fines and bail bond forfeitures. Some of the deadbeats, among them many Prohibition moonshiners, are dead; others are in prison, untraceable, or truly too poor to pay (tightlipped Watergate Burglar...
Confusion rather than confidence greeted the changeover, which was actually authorized by the Knesset as far back as 1969. Fearful that the new shekels would depreciate as rapidly as the old pounds, Israelis rejected Hurvitz's pleas not to embark on "a buying spree" and converged on Arab money...
Armed with his new insights, Terrace began reviewing the reports and video tapes of other experimenters. Careful study of the record showed the same patterns with other apes that Terrace had noted in the work with Nim. There were rarely any "spontaneous" utterances, and what had seemed at first glance...
Spector, 39, has been called a genius, often by himself. In a recording studio, he throws tantrums as easily as other producers turn dials, and hurls invective like a rock-'n'-roll redraft of Erich von Stroheim. His excesses of style and manner are legend, and some call...