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...Manhattan store boasts some 10,000 items, ranging from $10 wooden stairway spindles to the interior of an art-deco jewelry store for $135,000, complete with display cases and teller's cage. There are hundreds of marble fireplace mantels, pedestal sinks, lighting fixtures, wrought-iron gates and granite gargoyles. There are bigger chunks of history: a 5-ft.-tall, $3,500 brass-and-crystal chandelier found in a crate in Gimbel Bros.' basement, and a 9-ft.-high, 77-ft.-wide chestnut-paneled music room from a turn-of-the-century house in Southampton, N.Y. Cost: $30,000. Antique...
...Harvard University Police caught a suspected burglar after a chase through an Adams House stairway last night...
...this weekend--a radio got stolen, said Fernando. "As soon as he left, I called the police." He said he then tried to stall the suspected thief, but the intruder bolted down the stairs, beginning the chase that took Fernando and three friends down Adams House's E-entry stairway...
...impression was of an absence of solidarity between social groups here in Gdansk, even at home, in the same building and stairway, an overwhelming solitude, fear and uncertainty. And despite everything, the feeling revolt was necessary." Thus Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the now banned Solidarity trade union movement, describes his political awakening a decade before Solidarity was born. Walesa's 604-page autobiography, A Path of Hope, published last week in France, contains no new or explosive disclosures, but it eloquently and simply portrays brave citizens pitted against a political tyranny. Without ever explicitly saying...
...door, hanging on with one arm. The matatu is a hurtling metal beast with people in its belly, an event of nature on the highways. "Aieee! Aieee! Matatu!" Matatu owners have a witty taste for apocalypse. One of them named his matatu the Enola Gay. Another proclaims itself the Stairway to Heaven. Not reassuring...