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...propeller-driven plane, a Vice President exhorting the faithful in Nebraska, tramping through Alaska's Matanuska Valley (even though Alaska was not yet a state) and thundering his hopes in Michigan, labor's stronghold. Ike, wisely, had decided to stay in the White House. "The roof fell in," Nixon remembers with a melancholy laugh. "We lost 47 seats in the House...
...ready to give in. As Wlosik's wooden coffin was carried from the cemetery chapel, a couple unfurled the union's banner, symbolically splattered with red. Then mourners who had crammed between the gravestones raised their hands in victory signs. Workers, ranked shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a nearby building, picked up the salute, and even onlookers standing on a slag heap a quarter of a mile away joined in the silent gesture of protest. Said one mourner bitterly: "The only thing that is left to us now is the victory sign...
...those who missed last week's episode in the popular series Palace-the continuing saga of a colorful, wealthy family whose lives are all centered beneath one gilded roof-the handsome and dashing young Prince Andrew, 22, had cut short his Caribbean vacation with fetching onetime Porn Starlet Koo Stark, 25, in hopes of stilling the wicked quills of gossip. Alas. An opportunistic companion on the trip, Elizabeth...
...control died in committee. Finally last year, Congress passed a bill, as Moynihan put it, "to return the building to its use before Congress began fumbling with it." It authorizes the Government to spend $69 million more to undo what it did. Another $9 million has been approved for roof repairs. If the rusting parking garage ever opens, each of its 1,200 spaces will have cost an estimated $62,500. But the plan, in keeping with President Reagan's free-market philosophy, depends on getting private developers to invest in the station. The Government hopes to take bids...
...peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than you do yourself, and he asks so little in return. Only that you continue as you are and that you offer him the same consideration...