Word: strangerness
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Neill E. Norman '84 was having a drink in the Bow and Arrow. A stranger took some pictures of him to send to New York, and within two weeks he was in Barbados...
...airport was closed, making it impossible to ship film by air. All roads leading north, south and east were closed because of fighting. Finally the frustrated Mattison decided to walk some ten miles to the Israeli lines with the week's work of six photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around...
...plan to go public generates potential fortunes-and problems Diana Parsons was skiing in Switzerland with her family when a stranger called from London with the news. The British farmwife, 44, could be a multimillionaire, thanks to a distant relative named Dundas who had bought some stocks three generations ago. As a shareholder in a company that is a part owner of Reuters Ltd., the London-based news agency, Parsons could gain some $4 million. All over Britain, would-be millionaires are racing to lay claim to part of the estimated $1.5 billion that Reuters may be worth...
...sets him apart. For him the American melting pot can sear faster than it assimilates. And so he looks to his roots, finding solace in soul, while fixing an eye on the main chance of upward mobility. His tragedy is that, in both worlds, he may end up a stranger...
...both Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger know, nothing could be stranger than the intricate power struggles of real-life politics, except perhaps the convolutions of the prime-time TV soap Dynasty. Ford, 70, and Kissinger, 60, will make cameo appearances next week on the program. It was filmed at an actual charity benefit for the Children's Diabetes Foundation. During the big party scene, Ford and Wife Betty meet Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans), and Kissinger exchanges greetings with Krystle's nemesis, Alexis (Joan Collins). Will Blake charm Jerry into a profitable business deal...