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...horror of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should spur citizens worldwide to call for an end to the nuclear arms race, atomic bomb survivors said yesterday before an audience of 25 people at the Divinity School's Andover Hall...
...away in Manhattan. Bus service also meant that the town's two florist shops could count on daily deliveries of fresh flowers. And repair shops could often get same-day emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...
...table. No one believes Moscow can single-handedly make peace. Any hope of overcoming that logjam still requires American influence. "The Arabs and the Soviets know that until the United States joins the game, there is no game," says a U.S. Administration official. Then perhaps Moscow's aggressiveness will spur the idling Bush Administration...
...future may come sooner than expected because of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Along with the 150-plus hours of over-the-air coverage it will provide, NBC has announced plans to offer separate packages of events for PPV. The prospect of large revenues from the Olympics is likely to spur more cable systems to acquire PPV technology before then...
...would be difficult for a mass manufacturer to produce. Weiss gets around the problem by employing 28 skilled costume builders to cut fabrics and put his socks + together. "I can have an idea tonight and have it in the stores tomorrow," he boasts. Growing curbside competition is proving a spur to innovation. One of the most popular styles in California is an anklet adorned with scenes of grazing cows. Picking up one's socks may never be the same again...