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...corner, and coffee wagons have again sprouted their gaily colored umbrellas along the avenues. The sound of a car backfiring is likely to be exactly that and not the blast of gunfire. And early every morning, joggers of every description-Lebanese and foreigners, students and businessmen, paratroopers and housewives-swarm along the Avenue de Paris, popularly known as the Corniche...
...Wednesday the swarm of El Al workers at the airport had swelled to 1,000, most of whom brought along their wives and children. The families lay down on the runways in an effort to stop the flights of other airlines. When El Al pilots parked two Boeing 747s and one 707 on the main runway, the airport was forced to shut down for nearly 24 hours. Because there were women and children among the protesters, the government ordered the police to go easy. Only seven workers were arrested, but six demonstrators and eight policemen were injured in scuffles...
...Never Again will be, Producer Schwartzman offers Hollywood slang: "We're on Route 20 and heading north." (Translation: up to $25 million.) Both films will be fighting for the moviegoer's attention against The Revenge of the Jedi (Part III of the Star Wars saga) and a swarm of aggressive kidflix. Will there be enough prurient adults around to push both Bond pictures into the black? It makes for quite a cliffhanger-but then, everyone knows 007/007 is invincible. -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Marcia Gauger/Udaipur and William Hackman/Villefranche-sur-Mer
...history but accounting." This criticism reflects the fact that less than half the nation's swarm of college students go to liberal arts colleges; the rest are seeking not just jobs but entry into the middle class...
Stung by the Crimson tally, Columbia responded like a swarm of been for the rest of the match, putting unrelenting pressure on the Harvard goal mouth as the difference in skill became apparent and the booters made fewer forays into the Lion's half...