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...enjoying a steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas '83, he should go and enlist immediately. In recent years, there has never been such a queue to join the Army...
...more than a two-minute wait; $10,000 yields a slower teller line with a five-minute limit. The bank is now testing a program where customers with less than $5,000 in their accounts cannot see a teller to make deposits and withdrawals. Instead, they will have to queue up at an electronic banking machine. Some customers have been complaining, and New York's Chemical Bank has begun advertising, "Our tellers love customers...
...Jaruzelski, Poland's military ruler. Next came such allies as Cuban Party Chief Fidel Castro and Afghan President Babrak Karmal. They passed by briskly, exchanging only a few phrases with Andropov. But when Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua extended his hand toward Andropov's, the slow-moving queue of dignitaries came to a halt for three minutes while the two men talked volubly through an interpreter. The tall, stooped Soviet leader looked more than ever like a Russian zhuravl, or crane, as he bent forward to speak to the diminutive Chinese envoy. By contrast, Andropov's other...
...shuffled up a marble staircase beneath chandeliers draped in black gauze. On the stage, amid a veritable garden of flowers, a complete symphony orchestra in black tailcoats played classical music. Brezhnev's embalmed body, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and black-and-red tie, faced the long queue of mourners. His face was drained of color, distant and alabaster in death. The mourners could not pause...
...still the people came-by hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands-defying the guerrillas' threats and claims to their allegiance. Under a sweltering sun in the San Salvador suburb of Mejicanos, voters stood in a half-mile queue while a firefight raged six blocks away. When the action moved closer, the people dropped to the ground until it passed, keeping their places in line. In another northern suburb, San Antonio Abad, voters hid in their homes until the end of a skirmish that left twelve rebels and three soldiers dead. When the fighting stopped about...