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...items even have lower price tags today. Sears does not sell a twelve-tube Superheterodyne console radio any longer, but at $52.95 it could hardly be a match for this year's $39.95 portable AM-FM that also carries the audio portion of TV channels. Still, the misty veil of nostalgia only enhances the appeal of a Lionel electric train set ($12.79), all-steel coaster wagon ($1.98), 26-piece doll-house ($1.98) or 15-in. mohair Teddy bear...
...Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention: smiles for the boys, frowns for the girls. These miniatures are more than mere playthings. Black dolls of the South were owned by the children of slaves; after the Civil War, dolls were made with new identities: ministers...
...secret, and reporters sat outside, talking among themselves." Meanwhile, pickets would vie for press attention, and lobbyists for varying causes would voice their grievances. Says Ostling: "Naturally, these groups would cozy up to the press corps to get coverage, and soon sideshows were upstaging the main event." After the veil was lifted, says Ostling, "there was a lull in press coverage. Some bishops thought that when they were more mysterious, they were more attractive. But soon enough, a tremendous interest in the bishops' every move was reborn...
...during the country's fratricidal struggle against left-wing terrorism. Also included on the proposed list of taboo topics was the military's humiliating defeat by Britain in last spring's Falkland Islands war, which resulted in 1,366 Argentine casualties. The government further demanded a veil of silence over its role in accumulating Argentina's $42 billion foreign debt, and over any charges of corruption against members of the current regime. In addition, the military announced that it would like a "constitutional presence" in the next national government...
...catafalque where Brezhnev lay amid wreaths and flowers, with row upon row of medals pinned to cushions below his feet. After a brief formal tribute, Andropov led the Politburo members toward the dead man's family. He bent over and kissed Brezhnev's widow Victoria, 75, through her veil. She lifted a hand to her cheek to wipe away tears. Andropov bent to kiss her again, then kissed Brezhnev's daughter Galina. Kirilenko, a leading contender for the succession until sidelined in the past year, burst into tears as he spoke to Brezhnev's widow...