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...puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object whose shadow on that day, March 21, would point to the buried treasure...
Congress has been bolstered in its skepticism by the attitude of American friends abroad. In London last week, Denis Healey, the pro-American shadow Foreign Secretary of Britain's Labor Party, warned: "There is a growing feeling in Europe that the U.S. is drifting into a very dangerous posture in Central America. Armed intervention by American forces in these countries would be a historic blunder." Actually, of course, armed intervention is politically close to impossible, which is one reason why tough Administration rhetoric does not get anywhere...
Labor's shadow chancellor, Peter Shore, offered his party's alternative budget, calling for $16.3 billion in additional spending to generate a 5% growth in the economy next year. (The Tories' projections call for only 1.5% growth.) Moreover, Shore charged, tables issued by the government's own tax office showed Howe's figures on tax benefits to be a fraud. Only Britons with incomes of more than $36,000 would actually benefit from the Tories' budget. Scoffed he: "So much for this 'budget for the people...
...time in their history have U.S. airlines been in worse shape than they are now. Economic recession has cut deeply into the number of air passengers, slimming the market to a mere shadow of its once lusty self. Eight of the top carriers alone lost $824 million last year. Regional airlines did not do much better as a group. Many of the smaller carriers that initially prospered under fare-cutting schemes encouraged by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 are now in trouble and may not survive...
This name darkened Father's face, and with the shadow of the word still on it, he said, 'And what was Mussolini like...