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EARLY on the morning of January 27, 1980, two Austalian policemen patrolling a lonely stretch of highway came upon a parked Mercedes sedan. Approaching the car, they saw a man slumped over in the driver's seat with a rifle slug in the head, the victim of an apparent suicide. The man, a drug trafficker, arms trader and purveyor of secrets, was Francis Nugan, chairman of Nugan Hand, the widely respected international banking house...
...developed the world's first computer-generated freestanding hologram -- a three-dimensional image of a green Camaro sedan suspended in midair. Unlike most holographic images, which are put onto flat photographic plates, the Camaro is recorded on a concave plate and projected into the air by laser beams. The hologram was designed with funding from General Motors, which still painstakingly builds scale models of new car designs out of clay. In the future, GM and other automakers may be able to use holograms to see what a car will look like before it is actually manufactured. Eventually, such images...
...living on the relatively modest salary of a law professor and civil servant, Robert Bork went on a spending spree in 1981. Flush with the promise of a partnership worth $400,000 annually in the Washington office of the firm of Kirkland & Ellis, Bork purchased a new BMW sedan and a $500,000 house in the District's fashionable Kent neighborhood. The day he moved into his new home, however, Attorney General William French Smith made him an offer he could not refuse: a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
...originally was a little reluctant to come, but cheering crowds hailed him all along the route from his home at Mount Vernon. In Philadelphia, Washington soon went to call on his old friend Benjamin Franklin, now 81 and gout-ridden, who traveled around Philadelphia in the city's first sedan chair, a glass-windowed Parisian creation carried by four prisoners from the Walnut Street jail. Franklin, who knew Washington's tastes well, had a cask of porter ready...
...happened to have an APB out on me for an abortive coup I plotted a few months back. I could not keep too low a profile. To this end I painted the words "World Socialism Rules" on my gas tank and borrowed the diplomatic plates I found on a sedan at the East German border. Now all I had to worry about was not getting pulled over, since my driver's licence had been revoked for trying to run down the premier of Rumania...