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...media attention is being paid to a stack of old film cans found in a Tyler, Texas, warehouse and acquired by G. William Jones, director of Southern Methodist University's Southwest Film/Video Archives. Not yet fully examined or catalogued, the collection may not be quite the "treasure trove" that it was originally thought to be, but it contains upwards of 20 "race movies" (as they were once called), including some "lost" films and excellent prints and negatives of other movies that will give scholars and the public a chance to see them fresh, free of the murk...
...Russian-language maps. Some of their trucks were still decorated with Christmas tinsel. But the condition of the 30-mile-long column was hardly festive. At the village of Mupa, they had to put up a rickety bridge across a swollen river; farther south, they drove past a treasure trove of Soviet-made equipment, including recently developed AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers. After five weeks of "Operation Askari," the South Africans reported knocking out 25 Soviet-made tanks, giving chase to two Cuban battalions, and killing 400 enemy troops. Their own casualties were 21 dead, more than in any other...
...size of this pool and thus the power that the money managers wield have grown prodigiously. In 1950 pension funds held $17 billion. Today they are a $1 trillion treasure trove. By 1995 the total is expected to reach $3 trillion. Through these funds, some 60 million Americans own about 30% of all the equity capital in U.S. corporations. That makes a mockery of Karl Marx's prediction that capitalism would end in revolution as fewer and fewer people owned the means of production...
...Kunhardt Jr. (Little, Brown; 263 pages; $22.50). Kunhardt is a superb scene setter. He reminds the reader that Henry Ford was born in 1863, but the nation was still young enough to "remember the faces and handshakes of its founding fathers." And he was able to tap a trove of evocative Lincolin-era photographs to illustrate the book: the Meserve Collection, begun by his grandfather Frederick Hill Meserve and continued by his mother, Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt...
...more than a week the Administration had tantalized newsmen and members of Congress with hints I about what Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam called a "treasure trove" of captured Grenadian documents that would put to rest any questions about U.S. motives for the invasion. Late last week the State Department finally released 196 pages of its vast stockpile. The documents did not quite represent the "smoking gun" needed to substantiate President Reagan's claim that Grenada was being transformed into a "major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy." But the papers did offer solid evidence that...