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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Madden and her circle have always been the subject of gossip and raised eyebrows, most people have not lost sight of what really makes Lexington run: its Thoroughbreds. "We take it [breeding] seriously," says Horsewoman Mary Jane Gallaher. "It's more important whether a foal is upside down in a mare than whether a few flake-out Louies are playing weird games on the side...
...crowd caught sight of the Pope arriving in his bulletproof car, hundreds of thousands of hands shot into the air in a V-for-victory sign. Red-and-white banners bearing the words SOLIDARITY and GDANSK sprouted from the stands and above the crowd outside the stadium amid hundreds of national flags and papal banners. A delegation from the Ursus Tractor Factory, once a hotbed of union activity, made its presence known with a sign reading URSUS WORKERS GREET THE POPE WITH SOLIDARITY. Another poster proclaimed: GOD, HONOR, HOMELAND, WE PRAY FOR THE PRISONERS. Security guards spread throughout the stadium...
...independent farmers' union that was organized in May 1981 and dissolved in October 1982. But there were also more traditional symbols of Polish patriotism, including an ensign emblazoned with a golden Polish eagle wearing a royal crown and brandishing a cross. The crowd roared enthusiastically when it caught sight of the white-and-blue helicopter carrying the Pope from Warsaw. He returned that feeling, joining with them as they sang a hymn...
Donald Mazur, managing director of WPPSS, called the court decision "devastating." He said he still expected work on the last fully active power project, which is 97% completed, to be finished in September. But $149 million more is needed, and the money is nowhere in sight...
Four boys sat rapt before their television sets 20 years ago, following Rod Serling's voice into "another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." They grew up, or at least aged, to become successful film makers: John Landis with National Lampoon's Animal House, Joe Dante with The Howling, George Miller with The Road Warrior and Steven Spielberg with half of the megahit movies of the past eight years. But they never forgot The Twilight Zone. In Steven Spielberg's E.T., one teen-ager hypes the spookiness by singing Marius Constant...