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They came from New York City, from Philadelphia and Richmond, and from headquarters a few blocks away. They were all neatly dressed in jackets and ties, some still in the white shirts and short hair of yesteryear. On their own time and at their own expense, nearly 700 past and present FBI agents gathered last week in front of the U.S. courthouse in Washington for an extraordinary protest demonstration against the indictments of three former bureau officials...
...where," asked the 15th century French poet François Villon, "are the snows of yesteryear?" Ruth Kirk knows, and in her newly published Snow, she answers not only Villon's question but any others the reader-be he skier, scientist or snowbound suburbanite-may have about the stuff that delights children, often annoys and inconveniences adults, and, to a greater extent than most people are aware, has influenced the course of history and will continue to do so. As Kirk describes, the snows of yesteryear-and the years before that-have been compressed for thousands of years into...
...other crop of vehicles in the industry's history. Detroit's scale-down is already showing up in car-rental agencies. National calls a Pontiac Grand Prix a full-size car and charges accordingly, even though what the driver gets is a vehicle about as big as yesteryear's intermediate...
...long predinner cocktail hour is vanishing; at most parties, white wine, dry sherry or a light aperitif is served?briefly ?instead of the palate-numbing Scotches and martinis of yesteryear. Preprandial hors d'oeuvres?"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctions?have yielded to crisp vegetable sprigs and slices. Thereafter come a few well-confected courses that cry, in Jonathan Swift's words, "Come, eat me!" And, of course, a wine or two to dignify their downing...
...told a hockey fan of yesteryear that in 1978 there would occur a Women's Beanpot Tourney in ice hockey, he might have gone for the men in the white suits to come and take you away...