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...unidentified buyer has been spending huge amounts of money to drive up the price of a metal. More than $500 million has been invested, and 30,000 tons of tin have been stockpiled in European warehouses. Speculators who gambled that the price of tin would soon fall face financial ruin. Major tin consumers have escalating costs. Says a spokesman for U.S. Steel, which makes tin-plated products: "Of course this is hurting...
...public relations smoke) no leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial disaster a year ago, bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble of personally hiring Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first public showing of One from the Heart, without informing Paramount, which was supposed to distribute the film? Would Coppola have to hock...
...whose favor he had withdrawn in September 1979. The dashing Rawlings, son of a Scottish father and a Ghanaian mother, had seized command, he declared, because the previous government was led by "a pack of criminals" who were taking the West African nation "down to total economic ruin...
...miniature he-men scurry about with sandbags, grenades and machine guns. The war cry would be perfect at a Cambridge tenants' union meeting, but would 150 teenagers take on an armored National Guard division over a real estate dispute? That is, after all, the kind of thing that can ruin a kid's transcript...
...that the articles were written by an anti-Semite. The critic, as his name showed, was a Jew." The maligned author grows ever more frantic and tries to become more Austrian than his growing band of tormentors: "Jewish entrepreneurs should be wiped off the face of the earth, they ruin everything they touch! ... I hate the Jewish petite bourgeoisie." Eventually, he abandons his wife and son and flees to Vienna. Inevitably, Bruno and his mother take another train trip, deported with the other Jews in their town and packed into a cattle car heading south...