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...Paris with Denis de Rougemont ... We gave a luncheon for Auden and the Austrian Ambassador ... In Berlin, at luncheon, I met George Kennan again ... Went to lunch with Robert Oppenheimer ... [Guy Burgess] invited me to lunch at his apartment ... Lunched with Cyril (Connolly) at Whites ... Pauline de Rothschild rang and I lunched with her and Philippe at Prunier." There are also dinners with Igor Stravinsky and Edith Sit-well, breakfasts and quick bites at franchised "inns," where Spender passes lonely hours during U.S. lecture tours...
They flashed the now familiar "L" sign used by Corazon Aquino's followers in the Philippines and chanted antigovernment slogans similar to those that recently rang out in Manila. Inspired by Aquino's success in toppling Filipino Strongman Ferdinand Marcos, more than 4,000 South Koreans last week marched in Seoul, hoping to bring the same kind of democratic people power to their country. Said Leading Dissident Kim Dae Jung: "As the Argentine situation has affected other Latin American countries in their struggle for democratization, the Philippine situation will have a domino effect on other Asian countries fighting for democracy...
...week that started a million telephones jangling. Eager investors rang their brokers to buy stocks, driving the Dow Jones industrial average up a record 92.91 points to an all-time high of 1792.74. Happy homeowners phoned bankers to refinance their mortgages at interest rates not seen since 1978. Economists called up clients to report that U.S. growth will be more robust than almost anyone had expected. Corporate treasurers got on the speakerphones with their investment bankers in New York City to talk about financing bold projects with multimillion-dollar bond issues...
...control center, cheers rang out and champagne corks popped. Then came the bonus. Half an hour after the screens blacked out, Giotto's signals were picked up again; except for the camera, all of its instruments were still working...
...public opinion should be writing essays and editorials; journalists who report news need to stick to the facts. Today's journalists seem to blur the distinction between news and opinion. Joseph K. Valaitis Brecksville, Ohio, U.S. White House spokesman Scott McClellan's call for Newsweek to "repair the damage" rang hollow. It's the White House that should repair the damage done to the U.S. by the war in Iraq. What about the suffering of the families of U.S. service members who lost their lives? It is time for Americans, regardless of political party, to demand that our government...