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...Ursus Books, 981 Madison Avenue...
...America, Mr. World and Mr. Universe whose previous claim to fame had been a costarring role in Ed Wood's Jail Bait, went on to star in a Hercules sequel, then as Aeneas and Romulus. After him came other musclemen: Reg Park in Hercules Conquers Atlantis, Ed Fury in Ursus, Son of Hercules, Mark Forest in Mole Men vs. the Son of Hercules. Well-tended flesh was as important to these movies as to 300, as were the decorous women and extravagant battle scenes...
...have worshipped bears; at least a cavern discovered last year in southern France featured a bear skull, "placed on a large rock set in the middle of a gallery against a backdrop of bear paintings." Besides, wouldn't it be kind of sad if the only vestige of Ursus horribilis were some fat little fellows named Teddy...
Their findings were hardly encouraging. The Ursus tractor plant outside Warsaw, which once supplied farm equipment for the entire East bloc, was operating at only a fraction of its capacity. At the OMIG electronics factory, the building was crumbling and the technology 25 years old. "The Poles are doing very well with the tools they have," said Robert Galvin, chairman of Motorola. "But to be competitive they need entirely new operations...
Most of the midday voters at polling station 202 in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus dutifully accepted the printed ballots listing the official slate of candidates and dropped them into the large white-and-red box without a moment's hesitation. But one elderly man insisted on his right to consider alternative choices, noting that "nobody buys a cat in a bag." As he stepped into the booth conspicuously provided for that purpose, amused polling officials heard him sarcastically exclaim as he marked his ballot, "What a surprise! They even provide pencils to cross out these names...