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...times last week, the government seemed to be a bigger threat to itself than Solidarity did. In one clear public relations mistake, the authorities mounted a crude display of force against an unofficial ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. A crowd of 1,000, including scores of foreign guests invited by the government, approached the plaque designating the place from which 300,000 Polish Jews were transported from Warsaw to Nazi death camps. After flowers were laid at the memorial, armed militiamen ordered the gathering to leave on the ground that...
...beleaguered couple arrives in Buffalo to see Paula's parents (Burnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy.) In her old home, Paula finds her vague dread about wedlock confirmed: her parents now live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight of California, begins to freeze in the Catholic gloom of Buffalo...
Cutting loose from Reed in 1974, Jobs journeyed back toward home and, answering a help-wanted ad in a local newspaper, landed a job at a video-game outfit called Atari, then in its second year of business. Jobs became the 40th employee of the small and idiosyncratic company founded by Nolan Bushnell and fueled by the success of Pong, the first of a long line of video recreations that turned simple games into eye-glazing national obsessions. Atari was a pretty loose place?staff brainstorming sessions were fueled with generous quantities of grass?but even there Jobs...
...Television." In typically rapid-fire style, he shows how each of those nascent trends came to a head in 1980. And in the second half of the book, he shows how those developments and Ronald Reagan's strategy of skillfully using them to his benefit, made him America's 40th president...
...January 20, 1981, two sagas intersect. A few minutes before noon, as spectators on Capitol Hill cluster around portable radios to hear the latest news of the American hostages' release. Ronald Wilson Reagan takes the oath of office to become the 40th President of the United States. One half hour later, as President Reagan's motorcade proceeds up crowded Pennsylvania Avenue, the 52 American hostages who have been held in Iran for 444 days' lift off from Tehran on a flight bound for Algiers...