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During Henry Aaron's 1974 stalk of the lifetime home-run record set by Babe Ruth (who dispensed autographs cheerfully and without charge but never could fathom their allure), Aaron took the alias of Diefendorfer in an attempt to throw off his pursuers. He registered that way in out-of-the-way havens and avoided the company of his Atlanta Braves teammates. But a small boy with a ball-point pen still found him in a cavern of the stadium. "Are you a Brave?" the boy asked. Aaron was charmed. "Sure am, son," he replied with a great laugh...
Wall Street gave the report a mixed reception as economists debated whether the figures foreshadowed merely sluggish growth or a genuine recession. Bullish investors initially set off a rally Friday on the assumption that inflation might no longer be a danger and the Federal Reserve Board would soon allow interest rates to fall. But fear of a slump took hold later in the day, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 2381.96 at the closing bell, down 2.94 points for the day and 36.84 for the week...
...quarreling about whether to negotiate with the Soviets on reductions in short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the U.S. policy review is almost completed, and Secretary of State James Baker is due to drop the first authoritative hints on a two-day visit to Moscow this week. Shevardnadze was set to receive him eagerly on Wednesday and to usher Baker into a private room with Gorbachev on Thursday...
...most powerful advertising firms. The WPP conglomerate has already swallowed up the New York City-based JWT Group, which included two leading U.S. agencies, J. Walter Thompson and Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein. The architect of WPP's remarkable transformation is Martin Sorrell, 44, the most feared raider to set foot on Madison Avenue...
...surprise, then, that it was here in Pago Pago that Somerset Maugham set his famous confrontation between the missionary and Sadie Thompson. Or that discussions of Samoa's moral -- and cultural -- identity continue as heatedly as the much publicized debate between Margaret Mead's classic vision of pastoral innocence (Coming of Age in Samoa) and Derek Freeman's revisionist account of violence and rape (Margaret Mead and Samoa -- The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve...