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Sullivan said he would devote much of his spare time this fall to fighting the measure, which he considers one of the gravest threats ever to rent control...
...military bases, communities across the U.S. launched pre- emptive strikes against the plan. The issue had less to do with military utility than with economic survival. In areas where the local economy depends on the payrolls of soldiers and civilian employees, citizens and public officials pleaded with Washington to spare their installations from extinction...
Americans did not spare themselves. Washington sent eight planeloads of official aid, plus a U.S. Air Force C-141 carrying supplies that left from Italy. Private donors gave millions of dollars' worth of supplies and equipment that required more than twelve planes to ferry them to Armenia. Industrialist Armand Hammer donated $500,000, and Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca announced a fund drive. In Chicago, one of five major Armenian population centers around the U.S., the local community raised more than $800,000 and collected 20,000 lbs. of supplies, from blankets to medicine. The Armenian Relief Society raised more...
Hammered copper, hand-thrown pottery, "honest" furniture even when machine-made -- these were the tenets that created the spare yet homey Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, handsomely surveyed by Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers (Abrams; 206 pages; $49.50). Founded in Britain by John Ruskin and William Morris as an antidote to the shoddy wares of the Industrial Revolution, the movement was brought to the U.S. by Gustav Stickley. Its principles have blurred, but the work produced by its philosopher-practitio ners endures. Example: the incised birds that flit across the flowers on Mary Frances...
...heaven, OK?..." In this case Joe Pendleton, a boxer, (or in Warren Beatty's version a professional football player, but then this play has gone through almost as many permutations as the jokes) is apparently about to die in a plane crash, and a newly hired angel, hoping to spare him some suffering, takes his soul a little early...