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DIED. Arthur Bryant, 80, cheerful proprietor of a down-home Kansas City restaurant frequented by Presidents and championed by some critics as the world's greatest barbecue joint; of a heart attack; in Kansas City. Upon taking over the place in 1946, Bryant swiftly introduced his own legendary sauce-red, grainy and spicy-and downgraded the decor, saying that fancier "wouldn't be no grease house...
...Square automatic teller, too, was inoperative. This cab driver would not accept the money order or a cheque, forcing my husband to go on to yet another branch of the same bank to no avail. The cab driver then took him to two places where the driver knew the proprietor, but neither would cash the money order, despite being apprised of the situation. Finally, by happenstance, they tried a Dunkin Donuts, where the money order was cashed, and my husband was able to pay the accumulated cabfare, plus that accrued in getting him back to his car. Luckily, since...
...acts of murder were still taking place as the roundup progressed. One man, who had hid in a partly bombed building, later related how he had peered through a small shrapnel hole while militiamen barged into a small shop across the street. The gunmen cut the throat of the proprietor, who was hiding inside, and then guzzled a bottle of whisky. At Gaza Hospital the staff of 22 doctors and nurses, mostly Europeans, were rounded up and marched away. As the medics passed a group of lounging militiamen, a Palestinian male nurse was pulled out of the group, taken around...
...where the clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan Pakzad. "It's protection in a chic way. To me, everyone who is rich and loves guns will want...
...where a sort of normality prevailed under Israeli occupation, he picked up a truckload of bottled water and returned with it after midnight to West Beirut. The next day he sold it at regular prices. As rumors of food shortages spread, people lined up for emergency supplies. Said the proprietor of one grocery store: "People are frightened. They are afraid that in case of a battle, they will not be able to leave their homes, and they are afraid that the Israelis will try to starve the city...