Word: pub
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Countless buildings in the Hamra area were badly damaged, including the Information Ministry and the headquarters of An Nahar, the newspaper of record for the entire Arab world. Last week, on its 50th anniversary, it was unable to pub lish for the first time. Inside the An Nahar building, the offices of several American news organizations, including United Press International, Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, were damaged or destroyed by phosphorus bombs. In late afternoon, Israeli artillery fire hit the Commodore Hotel, where many foreign correspondents were staying...
...struggle intensifies, angry and anxious brewery bosses have discarded their easy, neighborhood-pub relations with competitors. Says Pabst President William F. Smith Jr.: "I think some of the camaraderie that existed ten years ago has changed. We've put on boxing gloves." Smith has hung a sign on his office wall that reads: SHOW ME A GOOD LOSER AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER. Miller Chairman John A. Murphy has been known to take satisfaction out of wiping his feet on an office rug bearing the familiar eagle logo of Anheuser-Busch. Over at Anheuser-Busch, Chairman...
Whatever the outcome of the current investigation, international financiers hope the scandal will prompt the Vatican to reform and open up the operations of its bank. Italian Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta has long urged the Vatican to conduct its financial affairs in pub lic. Says he: "As a Catholic, I am against this strange, secret, uncontrolled, scandal-filled administration." Andreatta and many Italian moneymen do not think that the Vatican should even be in the banking business. Says he: "It is silly for the clergy to manage directly a financial institution." The peculiar relationship between the Vatican and international high...
Readers of Red Smith feel a similar ache when the newspaper slaps down on the doorstep. They remember him as a friend. Taking a sauna in Helsinki, pub crawling in Melbourne, trout fishing in Montana (where he comes across a baby eagle "as big as Bobby Ussery, with a Durante nose"), he is gentle, funny and wise...
...serious history. In fact, I Henry IV is the earliest extant example of the word history used to designate a dramatic genre. By playing down the history and inflating Falstaff (who is already inflated from excess of food and drink). Shakespeare's balanced design shuttling from palace to pub, from province to plain of battle-is upset...