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...Department has been seeking all along. When asked at a press conference precisely how the settlement differed from what the Justice Department had been demanding, Baxter, a soft-spoken former Stanford University law professor, hesitated. Then AT&T Chairman Charles Brown, who was standing next to him on the podium, leaned to the microphone and declared, "I will answer that for Mr. Baxter. It is exactly what the Government wanted. He is just too modest...
...began by "unbuilding" the interior. The task was complicated: the original building plans had disappeared over the years. Assembling old photos, early Sears catalogues and newspapers for pictures of authentic decor, "historians found some clues right in the building-a bit of plaster under the assembly speaker's podium became a model for the style of the ceiling molding. Girvigian, scrambling through false ceilings, uncovered keys to the original paint job. Researchers used aerial cameras to map the mosaic floors, which were then taken up, moved and cleaned. Piece by numbered piece, all the contents of the building were...
With the rows of medals on his full-dress uniform gleaming under the television lights, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov stepped to the podium in the Kremlin's modernistic Palace of Congresses late last week to report on the state of the country. In his address, delivered on the eve of a national holiday marking the 64th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ustinov lectured Washington on its belligerent rhetoric. Charged Ustinov: "Its high-ranking representatives declare with cynical disregard for the destinies of peoples that 'there are things more important than peace' and that a so-called...
Order certainly was not what Walesa faced when he returned to the unruly Solidarity meeting, which had continued in rump session while he was taking part in the discussions in Warsaw. There was still a touch of the mutinous mood when Walesa took the podium to make a report. Said he: "The authorities have stated that they are prepared to undertake talks on all problems important for the Poles." But he warned that Jaruzelski expected both sides to make compromises...
...experiment seems to be working, although inexperience has caused some unexpected pre-production tangles. No one had thought to worry about storage space for props and costumes, or about the difference between a seating plan with sight-lines to a single podium and one geared to the varied action of a play. And the show, though mounted very simply, ran over its $1200 budget because of "our complete lack of everything." Markham says, explaining, "It's just so different from what we ordinarily...