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Proficiency at billiards, it has been said, is a sign of a misspent youth. That is putting it politely. Pocket billiards, commonly known as pool, has had image problems for decades. The pool hall housed illicit kingdoms of numbers | runners and gangsters, winos and bums, four-letter-word expectorators and hustlers named Fats. Trouble brewed in every corner. Sharks infested the murky waters. "You had to watch out for all the spit on the floor," recalls a denizen of the old parlors in Ohio. "Any women who'd come around, you wondered what they did for a living...
...Elementary School No. 9 on Leninakan's Gorky Street, "the earthquake killed children on the spot during their classes," said a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist youth newspaper. Police Sergeant Valeri Gumenyok and his men pulled 50 children's bodies from the wreckage of the building. The paper described an end-of-the-world scene of people huddled around bonfires, and roads out of the city clogged with fleeing residents. As workers tried to clear away fallen masonry, "you could hear the terrible cries of people waiting for help," wrote a reporter for Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper...
...Communist youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda said 60,000 tents have been sent to the disaster area, but most of the 500,000 homeless are shivering around bonfires in the ruins...
...Adel, 19, is a veteran of the streets. At 16 he joined the Shabiba, an illegal P.L.O.-affiliated youth group, and later he led a protest strike and was jailed twice. When the intifadeh caught fire, he moved to the front line of the shabab, the young militants who keep the rebellion alight. Last winter the Israeli authorities threatened to demolish his family's home if he did not turn himself in. He complied and spent 8 1/2 months under administrative detention. At one point, he and two of his brothers shared a tent in the harsh desert camp...
Equally wary of the sensations of Saturday-morning television, parents are turning instead to the icons of their youth. "Parents are buying trains now instead of other electronic toys," notes Daniel Cooney, executive vice president of Lionel Trains. In 1959, Lionel was the biggest toymaker in the land. After years of languishing, the company was bought in 1986 by a Detroit real estate developer and avid collector; this year production and sales increased by 35%. The customers are "baby-boomer fathers who have spent 20 years building careers," says Cooney, "and now they are looking back at their childhood remembering...