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Expensive Midi. The downtown merchants-who have to cope with the crime, grime and transport snarls of the central city-are being hurt worst. There are some exceptions; for example, Chicago's Marshall Field and San Francisco's I. Magnin are doing well. On the other hand, in the twelve months ended last August, retail sales in downtown Cleveland plunged 23%; they fell 12% in downtown Philadelphia, 10% in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Boston...
...they can find. But the sly old iconoclast long ago found a secret printing press to publish about 5,000 copies. On publication day, Sartre and a few friends (including Film Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and his longtime companion, Simone de Beauvoir) pick up the papers, transport them to a side street near St.-Germain-des-Prés, and begin to peddle them. Then the police arrest everyone giving away, selling or reading the paper. Everyone, that is, except prominent people and, of course, Sartre and De Beauvoir, who stay on to deliver diatribes about...
...unusual risk along the Russian-Turkish border. The Soviets sometimes adjust their own, usually stronger beacons to the same frequency as those across the border. In fact, the U.S. is convinced that at least once, in 1959, they deliberately overrode a signal from Turkey to lure a U.S. military transport across the border and attack it. That incident took 17 U.S. lives...
...safe transport of these prisoners to Algeria or Cuba...
...brought to light, mostly during the past quarter-century. He notes that barnacles hitchhike to new climes by attaching themselves to whales, sailfish and ships' bottoms. Like some commuters who are forced to transfer from train to bus or taxi, Adélie penguins migrate using an integrated transport system. They toddle across the bleak Antarctic icecap on foot, swim in the icy sea and cruise lazily on drifting ice floes...