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...technician rather than as a public figure. But such behind-the-scenes machinations have their frustrations. One night, after an International Monetary Fund meeting in Copenhagen, Volcker was so exasperated with his colleagues that he strode down to the Tivoli Gardens and proceeded to throw wooden balls in a booth full of china plates until he had smashed away his tension...
Conquering cinemaspace is getting to be old hat for Christopher Reeve. Hanging his cape in the telephone booth temporarily between Superman and the upcoming Superman II, Reeve does it again as an ordinary playwright in a romantic saga called Somewhere in Time...
...Vici, after pulling into a gas station, Moore rushes to a phone booth for one more call to the Norman lab. Back in the truck, he exults: "This is it! They're going crazy back there." He floors the accelerator, heading for the tornado's path, so he can get pictures. At 4:09 p.m., the first heavy drops splatter on the windshield, washing away the dead insects. A jumble of blue gray shapes rushes across the sky. Soon chilly blasts of air shake the truck. A windmill in a nearby field whirs crazily. "It's only...
...their regret at attending college 15 years before the storm, just as some students today long for the activism and campus unrest their older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military draft made headlines and Sen. Joseph MacCarthy (D-Wisc.) sought to label John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History a "red" in January 1954, Radcliffe students...
...your American Scene, a man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. But when you mention the two token-booth operators in Queens who were burned to death, you say some teen-agers did it. Were they white teenagers, looking like a pack of wild dogs? Tell it like it is. Don't just yell black; yell white...