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...repertory to include the shot put, high jump, long jump, 200-meter dash and 80-meter hurdles. All this exercise has given the actress some impressive new muscles. She says: "You can see them get larger; they feel stronger. You become real conscious of them, but not in a vain...
...even Tiffany, who was a vain man, could have anticipated the surge in the value of his work. But then he did not intend to be a glassmaker in the first place. He did not need to be. When he was born in 1848, his father was already on his way to becoming the most famous jeweler in the land. But young Louis had no wish to take over the family business. He set out to be a painter, studying for a year with George Inness, rather than going to college. In the end he discovered that the arts...
...than the 2 million Soviet Jews, 4 million Roman Catholics and a small percentage of the country's 3 million Protestants who bitterly resist all state control of the church. Seven of these Protestant dissenters have lived in the U.S. embassy in Moscow for two years, seeking in vain to emigrate...
...prison, Jacobson quietly began selling some of his real estate, reportedly raising as much as $850,000 in cash. The Bronx district attorney heard of Jacobson's dealings and warned the Brooklyn prison, in vain, to keep a close watch on him. One of Jacobson's deals had been with DeRosa, who had bought a Vermont ski lodge from the former horse trainer in 1977. DeRosa, however, had fallen behind in his payments, and now it might have come time for Jacobson to ask for a favor. Police speculate that DeRosa, attaché case in hand, brought...
...Islamic Republic of Iran." In the kind of stinging personal attack that was shelved during the heyday of détente, TASS accused Carter of being guided by "purely egoistic and narrow political considerations." Stated the news agency: "This new dangerous venture was undertaken by the President in a vain attempt to show himself to be a strong leader, in order to reverse his declining popularity." The Soviets are especially bitter because Washington finally seems to be winning wide support for its efforts to organize a boycott of this July's Moscow Olympics in retaliation for the invasion...