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...manner and momentoes of a well-heeled professional. On the wall a framed picture of Chung and Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) serves as a reminder of his days as a regional coordinator for the Republican leader and presidential candidate. Side-by-side with this political relic are the ski posters and maps from Chung's days, seven years ago as a student ski tour packager--the business in which Chung got his start. Next to these relics is the nerve center of his current enterprise--a map of the United States, covered with dots of the major college marketing...
...services from companies as diverse as Sony, GTE and Panasonic. Today at least 60% of all telephones purchased in the U.S. have one or more sophisticated features. Says Christopher Jackson, a telephone expert at the Yankee Group, a Boston market-research firm: "The plain old black box is a relic of the past. People want their telephones to do something other than place calls and receive calls...
...news footage looks like a quaint relic, but not very long ago it had the immediacy of the evening news. Six hundred demonstrators are crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma at the start of a planned march to Montgomery, Alabama's capital. A phalanx of state troopers bars the way. The two lines converge; people fall to the ground, tear gas explodes, billy clubs...
Known to its citizens as the "land of the Eagle," Albania is notable on two dubious counts: it is Europe's poorest nation and a relic of the Stalinist era. For four decades, doctrinaire Dictator Enver Hoxha ruled the country with a monomaniacal determination and a fanatical brand of xenophobia. He proclaimed Albania to be the only true Marxist-Leninist state and pursued a program of "national self-reliance" that cut off virtually all ties with East and West. The country has no diplomatic relations with either the Soviet Union or the United States...
Goldwater never minced words. During the Watergate crisis in 1974, he journeyed to the White House to tell Richard Nixon that he had lost his support on Capitol Hill. In the 1980s, when many thought of him as a kind of political relic, he achieved perhaps his greatest effectiveness. Although he was never a Senate insider (he was far too blunt and unpredictable for that), as chairman of the Armed Services Committee he won what he considers his most important victory, the passage of the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, which streamlines the byzantine military decision-making process...