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...technology, is going to be beaten by Australia in the America's Cup yacht race, and the Yanks are taking it with all the grace of a baby deprived of its rattle. I am sure that most Americans do not give a damn about the race or the "tin pot" that is the prize, but I wonder how they feel about the slur this episode places on the name of Americans and their country...
...offended by the crass commercialism of the more than 700 religious souvenir shops, innumerable ice-cream parlors and other tourist businesses that line its narrow streets. Lourdes alarm clocks, fondue sets and cigarette lighters compete for shelf space with bottles of "Eau de Toilette a la Bernadette" (three scents), tin napkin holders depicting Bernadette and the Virgin, and plastic packets of "Lourdes Mints" guaranteed to be made from grotto water...
...intensely private life, is rarely photographed and gives no interviews. His money, however, talks. He was the secret partner in the $722 million purchase of 20th Century-Fox in 1981. He is believed to be the "mystery buyer" who the same year tried to corner the global market for tin. The Belgian-born Rich, whose family fled to New York during World War II, found his calling 30 years ago as a metals trader after dropping out of New York University. The Swiss-based commodities firm he founded in 1974, Marc Rich & Co. AG, is now one of the largest...
...tours in an eight-passenger airplane when many of those in his flock are among the poor. Richard Roberts replies to such criticism with annoyance: "Well, I'm serving a first-class God. When you see Oral Roberts University, you don't see a bunch of tin buildings. You see some thing that you can be proud of. I'm not serving a God that's poor. God owns everything. All the silver and gold on this earth belong to God. He created it. We believe in building first-class, that's why the City...
Brotherhood indeed! True, those male jet jockeys opened the space age with daredevil rides in rinky-dink tin capsules and kangaroo hops across the lunar wasteland. But move over, buddy. The women are coming, breaching that old space boys' club and bursting into what Ms. magazine sardonically calls NASA's world of "flaming, phallic rockets." During the next shuttle launch, sitting right there behind the skipper and his copilot, watching those blinking dials and video displays with her eagle eyes, will be Sally Kristen Ride, 32, former schoolgirl tennis star, Ph.D. in physics, cool, witty and attractive...