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Deng and his comrades are eager to deny that they face any significant opposition. Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang told one recent visitor that dissidents "do not number more than 200,000, and they have now been scattered all over the country." But Western experts suspect that the problem is more serious. Part of the reason that the leaders are publicly browbeating the U.S. over Taiwan is to prove their patriotism to party colleagues and to fend off the charge that they have let the U.S. push China around...
...national landmark, making it virtually impossible to tear down. So the railroads offered it to the Federal Government. The National Park Service had been hankering for a place to tell tourists about the delights of the capital. It seemed a perfect match. In 1968 Congress enthusiastically passed the National Visitor Center Facilities Act. The bill called for the Department of the Interior to lease the building for $3.5 million annually for 25 years, after which the Government would own it. The owners of the terminal, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads, would spend $19 million for a parking garage...
...could not type. During the congressional sex scandal revelations of 1976, Ray reportedly told federal investigators that her former boss, Kenneth Gray, had arranged for her to sleep with Alaska Senator Mike Gravel on a houseboat outing in August of 1972 in hopes of securing his support for some visitor-center legislation. Gray and Gravel have denied the allegations. Says Gray: "She never had a damn thing to do with the center...
...main entrance to Harvard's labyrinthine network of steam tunnels, the myths seem credible enough. A discreet door at the corner of the Science Center belies the cavernous two-story room behind it: a blast of warm air and the loud rush of machinery engulf the visitor as the door swings shut on a familiar world that is light, breezy and boundless. Inside, the huge water tanks that dwarf green-uniformed workers and the computer control room could grace the set of any James Bond science fiction scenario...
...colonization of the lucrative underwear market by the designers might have come to naught, if not for the entry of industry leviathan Calvin Klein, whose energetic marketing campaign has made designer underwear for men a fait accompli. Any recent visitor to New York has seen the virtually ubiquitous advertisements plastered by Klein's operatives on the sides of bus shelters. They depict a body reminiscent of something out of Mussolini's art collection in blissful, practically naked repose. All indications point to the probability that such advertisements will soon proliferate throughout the land...