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...sixth floor had become a museum, so the moviemakers used the seventh floor there and, for appropriate perspective of the motorcade, the sixth floor of an adjacent building. Stone also filmed at the Dallas police headquarters, where Jack Ruby killed Oswald. "The police were very cooperative," says production designer Victor Kempster. "They let us strip out computers in the offices and put in 1960s furniture. That included changing doorways to fit the film footage...
...Japanese, even if American fingerprints are all over the chips and technologies inside. U.S. companies have simply dropped out of many facets of the video-manufacturing business. Still, with researchers taking such divergent tacks, the HDTV competition no longer looks like a race that will have just one victor...
Lots of companies are suffering from vanishing profits, but Cascade International has a far more embarrassing problem: a missing chairman. The Florida-based retailer's founder and chief executive, Victor Incendy, disappeared last week, two days before a scheduled meeting at which he had promised to reply to accusations that his clothes-and-cosmetics empire was built on phantom stores and phony figures. The episode is a bizarre end to the spectacular seven-year rise of Cascade, which had regularly reported annual sales gains of 40% or more from a chain of stores with such names as Boutiques Allison...
...tyrant's appeal transfigured a shell-shocked country. Suddenly a hopeless cause became the Great Patriotic War. Even those who hated Stalin -- like the novelist Victor Nekrasov -- remember rushing into combat crying "Za rodinu, za Stalina!" (For the motherland, for Stalin!). The reanimated Russians could also count on a perennial ally: Father Winter...
...that, facing a dauntingly complex ballot, almost 57% of the electorate failed to vote last week in Poland's first free parliamentary elections since World War II. Even more frustrated by the country's failure to achieve postcommunist prosperity, those who did go to the polls chose no clear victor and no clear course for the nation: 29 parties will be represented in Poland's 460-seat lower house, and none will have more than 62 seats...