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...prospect of a new breeze was not lost on Managua. Last week, in interviews lasting four hours with TIME correspondent John Moody, Ortega seized the initiative to strike chords that sounded, and were doubtless carefully designed to sound, as conciliatory toward the U.S. as any during the Sandinistas' ten-year tenure...
...automobiles a day -- nearly 2 1/2 times its stated capacity. The two-mile elevated section, built without any shoulders or slowdown and speedup lanes for exits and entrances, has an accident rate that is twice the average for urban highways in the U.S. Next year Massachusetts will begin a ten-year, $4.3 billion project to rebuild and reroute some seven miles of highway, including Central Artery. Construction will add four traffic lanes, enough to accommodate an anticipated 210,000 vehicles a day, and will replace the elevated roadway with a tunnel. But Transportation Secretary James Burnley sternly criticizes the underground...
...accords on human rights. Within a month, all four were arrested and held briefly for questioning. Ruml was frequently picked up by the police in the years that followed, and in April 1981 he and his son Jan were accused of organizing subversive activities, an offense that carries a ten-year jail term. They were kept in different parts of a Prague prison, seeing each other only once in 13 months. In 1982 Ruml and his son were released, but the charges are still pending...
...TEN-YEAR LUNCH (PBS, Aug. 15, 9 p.m. on most stations). Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and the other literary legends who traded bons mots around the Algonquin Round Table are fondly recalled in this Academy Award-winning documentary...
Some look for moral messages in sprees and schneiders. Joe DiMaggio's 56- game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...