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...film library. In contrast, MGM will retain its extensive film and TV production and distribution operations, including the 24 sound stages on its 44-acre Culver City lot and an impressive library of 2,200 films (including Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain and 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...Even rain could not dampen the good cheer last week as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her 85th birthday. Accompanied by her daughters Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, the birthday girl started her various celebrations at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, where the organist ended the service by striking up a rousing Happy Birthday. The next day, the traditional 62-gun birthday salute was fired at Hyde Park and the Tower of London. But the best present came when the Queen Mum got her long-standing wish to fly aboard the Concorde. During her nearly two-hour specially...
...black and mixed-race protesters fought pitched battles with police in the southern city all week. The authorities responded with two new weapons. One is a water cannon that spews purple dye onto demonstrators so they can be identified later and arrested. The press immediately dubbed the substance purple rain. The second is more lethal: a rapid-fire gun mounted atop an armored personnel carrier that shoots potentially deadly rubber bullets...
...appeared full of hope, with sunshine after three days of rain. There was no hint of the violence to come in Manila last week as some 3,000 demonstrators began marching from the U.S. embassy toward the presidential palace. Most of the noisy, jostling crowd was made up of farmers from central Luzon, one of the country's principal rice-growing regions. Joined by militant students, they were protesting both high rice prices and U.S. support for the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...This deal was sold out before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear...