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Except for one small crack, the basrelief is perfectly preserved, a sign that it was apparently buried prior to the Spanish invasion, thus escaping destruction by the conquistadors. Along with the stone, diggers found six skulls, stone knives and other objects possibly linked to the ritual human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs. Scientists suspect that many more pre-Columbian objects may lie hidden under Mexico City's streets...
Stan Vinson, a crack middle-distance runner, no longer has to wash dishes for a living. Now working for Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Vinson compiled a perfect indoor season this year, winning his 600-yd. race in ten straight track meets and sprinting off with the A.A.U. National Indoor Championships. Looking ahead to the outdoor season, Vinson says of his rejuvenation: "It's happening, I'm convinced, because I can concentrate on the two things that are most important to me, running and a career...
...protagonist--his sympathetic ex-wife, tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays always call "Uncle Lou" or "Uncle Irving." The sole function of this fellow...
...Latin American tour, charged that the rise "is excessive and does cause additional very serious inflationary pressure in our country." Vice President Walter Mondale and the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) also condemned the increase. Privately, some officials recalled with approval President Kennedy's crack about the genealogy of steelmen* and made sarcastic, and misleading, references to a fat salary increase that they thought U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer had collected. (In fact, Speer's combined salary and bonus was $372,972 last year, down from...
With friends like Hemingway, Fitzgerald did not need hostile critics. The most famous act of unkindness occurred in 1936, when Scott publicized his torment in "The Crack-Up," an article in Esquire. Later that year, Hemingway published The Snows of Kilimanjaro in the same magazine. The story contained a gratuitous reference to "poor Scott Fitzgerald" and that famous line from The Rich Boy, "The very rich are different from you and me." The reply is often assumed to have been Hemingway's: "Yes they have more money." At Fitzgerald's request, his name was deleted and "Julian" substituted...