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Such ads would certainly be interesting. In the first batch of 307 parcels, there is something for everyone. Care for a piece of out-of-the-way America? An abandoned Air Force radar installation station on an acre at Cottonwood, Idaho, could be just the ticket. Prefer something in the East? The 105 acres adjacent to the Saint Albans Air Force Station in northwest Vermont might be worth a look. Feeling urban? The Frankford Arsenal, an 87.7-acre complex of 167 buildings, sheds and loading docks in Philadelphia, has all kinds of possibilities. The sale will offer property in every...
...Conservative government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had vowed to retain custody of the final batch of P.O.W.s until Buenos Aires formally admitted defeat in the 74-day war. Argentina refused, insisting instead that Britain had restored colonial rule over the Falklands. But in a message sent to Whitehall through the Swiss embassy in Buenos Aires, and relayed to London through the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern, Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Ramón Aguirre Lanari admitted that .here was a "de facto cessation of hostilities." The Thatcher government, faced with having to move the prisoners 8,000 miles...
...superchocolates they display are silky-smooth confections assembled from acmic ingredients: hand-picked beans from Sri Lanka or Venezuela, premium dairy products, fresh as well as dried fruits and nuts. Just the crucial "conching," or blending process, of the chocolate can take up to 72 hours a batch, vs. about nine for assembly-line chocolates. Ordinary bonbons are sprayed with chocolate, but chic chocs are hand-dipped to build an even quarter-inch-layer thickness. Another reason for their high cost is that they contain no artificial preservatives and can be stocked only in small quantities. Of Corné Toison...
...This year's batch of college graduates is socially and politically fogbound," says my 33-year-old friend as we sit in a cafe near the UC Berkeley campus...
Although LAMAR is the most advanced x-ray astronomy effort now scheduled in the United States, Gorenstein adds that it would probably not leave the earth's atmosphere on a space shuttle until 1986 or 1987--several years after the next batch of major x-ray experiments abroad...