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...sell their less desirable crude. The Africans balked at boosting prices at a time of sluggish demand, and the meeting disintegrated into a raucous round of name-calling. At one point, Yamani reportedly shouted: "I am a man of the desert, and nobody is going to laugh at my beard." That was the Arab equivalent of saying, "Nobody is going to take advantage...
...really caught unawares. I wish him another 25," said Mel Dorfman, perhaps the most "regular" of Tommy's regulars. A familiar sight with his black beret, white beard, and stack of used books, Dorfman has eaten one or two meals in the luncheonette every day for the last three years; he said he has been dropping by "off and on" for the last...
...case against the Bulgarians, however, remains unproven. Agca has changed his story before, and his latest narrative contains apparent inconsistencies. For example, he described Antonov as wearing a beard, but Antonov has apparently always had a mustache. Although photographs taken at the time of the assassination attempt show a man who looks strikingly like Antonov standing only a few yards from the Pope, Antonov's lawyer says that he can prove that his client was not in St. Peter's Square at the time of the shooting...
With that information out in the open, pretenders to the sleigh both in Boston and New York discussed their lives behind the beard more freely...
Happily, some of the worst advertising failed or even boomeranged. Beard and Cost were both defeated. In Massachusetts, Republican Margaret Heckler lost her House race to Democrat Barney Frank in part because of her ads charging that Frank, while a state legislator, had favored prostitution and pornography; Frank in fact had voted for a bill to set up adult-entertainment zones where police could more easily monitor those activities. Half the voters questioned in exit polls conducted by station WBZ-TV called Heckler's ads objectionable...