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Whatever may be thought of them as art, the startling window displays fulfill their commercial function: they do prompt people not only to stop and look but come into the store and buy. A sequence of windows in a Manhattan boutique named San Francisco depicted the suicide of a lovesick heiress: the first window showed her talking on the telephone in the stateroom of her private yacht, surrounded by bottles of liquor and sleeping pills; later ones displayed newspaper headlines telling of her death. The heiress was wearing a silk blouse priced at $125; the store swiftly sold...
...acknowledges that the Iranian project and several others like it raise questions serious enough to prompt Harvard to embark upon an overall foreign policy re-evaluation during the next few years...
...been making tapes. She's been telephoning Senators and Congressmen and asking them, 'Honey, do you remember that night when ... ?'" Whatever they said went into her recorders. It's enough to give a public servant cardiac arrest." It was also enough to prompt a number of legislators to deny having ever had anything to do with Ray. "Nonsense, sheer and utter nonsense," said Hubert Humphrey to rumors linking...
...were about 10,000 foreign detainees as of April 22 (N.Y. Times, 5/8/76). Some individual cases can be recounted here: Emilio de Ippola, a Paris and Montreal educated Argentine sociologist, disappeared on April 4 along with his wife and Eduardo Molina y Vedia, a reporter from La Opinion. A prompt international campaign of telegrams to Videla inquiring about the disappearances made the junta aware that the news had somehow leaked out. The junta admitted to having detained them for interrogation and assured that they were alive and well. The prompt campaign of telegrams may well have saved their lives. Antonio...
Longer-term prospects for U.S. fishermen look brighter. The unilateral extension of U.S. jurisdiction to 200 miles will inevitably prompt other nations to follow suit, causing sweeping changes in traditional fishing patterns. (The United Nations Law of the Sea Conference has yet to take any multilateral action.) Nations with short coastlines, like Poland and East Germany, could find themselves sharply restricted as to where they can fish, and new markets for U.S.-caught fish could open...