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...nearby row houses, flak-jacketed police officers put their hands over their ears. Then there was an orange flash and a powerful explosion that sent wood, metal and a cloud of dust flying into the air. Said a resident of adjacent Pine Street: "The blast didn't just shake the windows, it shook our entire house...
...boycott the Olympics because of it. That doesn't mean an athlete shouldn't take action against injustice when he's off the playing field. But on the playing field, well, that's something different: it's a place where a Black man and an "Aryan" German can shake hands after competing against each other in a race (which really happened back...
...everyone is tapering off, of course. According to the Yankelovich poll, 26% of the population continues to drink as it always has. Marshall Lyons, 31, a Berkeley, Calif., tree surgeon, even gives nostalgic martini (stir, don't shake) parties, complete with Peggy Lee music, because, he says, "martinis have the aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual...
...talks in early 1986 aimed at liberalizing world trade (prematurely christened the Reagan Round by some admirers of the President). One aim would be to provide the world economy . with a tonic, in the form of speeded-up exchange of goods and services, that it might need to shake off the effects of a slowdown in U.S. industrial expansion. A more political, and more pressing, purpose was to give Free Trader Reagan ammunition to use against protectionists at home who want to limit imports. A quick start on tearing down trade barriers would enable the President to hold out hope...
Great collections feed on disasters that shake leaves from other trees: wars, revolutions, depressions, bankruptcies. Albert's time was full of them, and he missed no chances. When the Austrian Prince de Ligne, who had the most renowned group of French drawings in Europe, was killed in the war against France, Albert bought the cream of his collection; he acquired another unrivaled group of drawings from Count Moriz von Fries when the count's bank failed in 1819; for 30 years he had agents scouring estates from Rome to London. In 20 years, 1792-1811, he spent more than...