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...saying he's great, it ain't no jive." One morning last November, 2,000 employees gathered at Chrysler's Sterling Heights, Mich., assembly plant for the ceremonial roll-out of Chrysler's new sports sedans. The workers chatted. They smoked cigarettes and fidgeted. Then, when their boss strode out, they got excited. A chant rose...
Familiarity is said to breed either contempt or children, but it is not supposed to enhance a mystery. The West has grown familiar with Soviet transferals of power in the past 28 months: Brezhnev became Andropov became Chernenko. Last week the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, strode under Western eyes in the now easily recognizable setting of a Moscow funeral for a head of state: Soviet citizens lined up and bundled up in what seems an eternal freeze; Chopin thudding in the background; gray-coated soldiers marching stiff legged like a row of A's; a body laid out like...
...confident President Jose Napoleon Duarte strode into his country's Supreme Court in San Salvador early last Monday to try to convince the tribunal that his partial veto of a proposed election law was constitutional. Court President Francisco Jose Guerrero escorted Duarte, flanked by three of his chief ministers, up four flights of steps to the court chambers. As it happened, the court elevator was not working because hours earlier a bomb, planted by leftist guerrillas, had left sections of San Salvador, the capital, without power. The scene aptly symbolized the twin crises faced by Duarte. On the one hand...
...place built for easy embarkations, absent of beauty or a connection with nature, and ruled by clocks and timetables. There is nothing terribly wrong with Dover, and nothing especially right. The town is a point of convenience, which is exactly the point that the Industrial Revolution originally spied, strode toward and reached. Who in Dover today would describe the world as various and beautiful and new? Yet how is the world less so than it was 134 years ago or a thousand, or the way it will be a thousand years hence, since its variety, beauty and novelty are always...
...food riots of 1970, in which dozens of Polish workers were killed by troops and police, and Walesa and some 3,000 followers planned to lay flowers and wreaths at the memorial erected in honor of the martyrs. Linking arms with Bogdan Lis, a former Gdansk Solidarity leader, Walesa strode off, and the crowd fell in behind...