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...extravaganza, sounds a lot like Vivien Leigh. And her lover and frequent co-star, the great Shakespearean actor Sir Robert Vane, would need no letter of introduction to Laurence Olivier. Do we recognize bits of the brassy showman Billy Rose? Is that lovable, tormented, red-haired American comedian a scrap of Danny Kaye? Yoo-hoo, Sir Ralph...
...Klerk appeared determined to root out virtually every major form of legal discrimination. Among the laws he promised to scrap was one that helped create the all-black homelands. Yet a few legal vestiges of apartheid will remain in a technical sense. Children who were born after the repeal of the Population Registration Act will no longer be classified by race, but the register will not be scrapped entirely until the new government comes...
...lament, the U.S. has compiled a decidedly mixed record when it comes to sacrificing for the common good. Not surprisingly, the First and Second World Wars were accompanied by large-scale national mobilizations for the war effort. Millions fought, while those on the homefront sold Victory Bonds and gathered scrap iron. But the Life magazine appeals to conserve soap and forego new stockings quickly disappeared after the war ended, casualties of a flourishing consumer society...
...checking line of Tim Burke-Steve Flomenhoft-Scott Barringer--which revived from a scoring drought to scrap for four goals this weekend--opened the scoring when Burke skated uncontested into the crease and shoved the puck past Princeton goalkeeper Mark Salsbury 6:22 into the opening period for what proved to be the game-winner...
Cheney reached his dramatic decision to scrap the A-12 after a tense six- hour debate in his Pentagon office. Navy Secretary Lawrence Garrett and his top acquisition officials tried to persuade the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell that the Avenger should be saved even though the program was running $2.7 billion over its fixed-price contract cost of $4.8 billion for development alone. It was also 18 months behind schedule...