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...customers picked over stacks of bedspreads, curtains and fabrics, overturning racks and pulling merchandise from display windows. Litter left behind keeps a night cleanup crew busy. "We can't control it," says Manager Bill Gebbart. "It's a disaster." But not for sales. Normally, the store rang up $5,000 in business during a typical day; now, says Gebbart, it is doing ten times that...
...when the phone rang, and Frances E. Sweeney, manager of the dining halls, told him that the University had decided to reinstate him effective Monday, he was justifiably jubilant...
...Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water rang against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people cede...
With that thought for incentive, Harvard came alive for three goals in the second period to take the lead, while Petrovek deflected the six Husky shots that came his way. Dave Bell got things going at 1:42, winding up for one of his famous slappers at point blank range. The shot rang off the crossbar over goalie Jim Bowman's right shoulder...
Eventually a plenary session of the National People's Congress will have to be held to designate Teng the new Premier. Similarly, there will have to be a Politburo meeting to elect party Vice Chairmen to replace both Chou and another top leader, Rang Sheng, who died one month ago. A strong candidate is Chang Chun-chiao, 63, the onetime Shanghai radical, who has decided to cooperate with the moderates...