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...taken across the border, or what is supposed to happen to those caught with too much. "People just don't know what is going on," said Alex Harrison, a retired American buying Kahlua liqueur (not banned) in Juárez last week. Among the horror stories is the saga of Bob Walz, 60, of Tucson, who filled spare tanks in his pickup truck with 250 gal. of diesel fuel in Mexico at 16? a gal. He was arrested at the border for "disrupting the economy of Mexico" and spent five nights in jail...
...bloody Bendix-Marietta saga should dispel any sanguine impressions. The two giants slugged it out toe-to-toe for 31 days, and the well-publicized battle, "at various times...threatened to destroy Marietta or Bendix, or both," according to The New York Times. At one point in late August, it looked like each would succeed only in buying each other's shares, a kind of corporate analog to the mutually fatal duel of Hamlet and Laertes. The two companies--and a pair of other preying conglomerates--spent millions of dollars on legal and financial fees, while diverting the financial community...
...might ask. Was he injured? On probation? No. The saga of Joe Pellegrini's layoff begins at the end of his junior year, when Pellegrini--who also competed in track and field at Harvard--started throwing the discus at a world-class standard. He was invited to work out under the tutelage of a German coach for the next year. Pellegrini began to entertain thoughts of making a trip to Moscow for the 1980 Olympics. He decided to accept the offer to train in Europe...
...SCHOOL saga, Jack Greenberg unwittingly played a perfect martyr to this cause. A man who has quietly devoted his life to furthering the rights of Black people. Greenberg was brought into the issue innocently, at the request of a Black civil rights lawyer who wanted him to help teach the course. Suddenly, however, he was bearing the blame for the Law School's suspect tenuring process. Minority students were demanding that he be disinvited to teach the course, and that a minority professor be brought in his place...
...honorable antecedents. In the first of the 48 preludes and fugues that make up The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away...