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...concerns, and its significance, reached beyond the stage. Founded at the dawn of the Depression, the Group was avidly though not dogmatically leftist; Co-Founder Harold Clurman said, "We are not going to be restricted by Marxism." Organized and run more or less collectively, the ensemble slowly splintered as members' careers led them elsewhere; it broke up entirely by 1941. Eventually, some of the founders were barely on speaking terms, and some of those feuds continue today...
...news that Lieut. Robert Goodman had been released by the Syrians into the eager arms of Presidential Contender Jesse Jackson. Reagan huskily brushed aside the option that he play down Jackson's triumph. Reagan never met a piece of good news he didn't like, even at dawn. His instincts told him Goodman, Jackson, the U.S. and Reagan could all be winners...
...Near dawn one nippy day last November, several dozen sleepy citizens of Baltimore gathered at the new Reisterstown Plaza station just northwest of downtown. After seven years of jackhammered streets and more than a quarter-century of discussion and planning, they were eager to board the city's gleaming new subway for its first passenger run. Just past 5 a.m., the shiny silver-and-blue Metro cars, built at a cost of $600,000 each, whooshed into view. Marveled Mark Miller, a radio announcer who had risen at 3:30 to catch the inaugural trip: "It was a dream...
...colleagues had "decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government" of President Shehu Shagari, 58. "This task," said Abacha, "has just been completed." The general then announced that all political parties were being banned and communications with the outside world suspended, and that a dusk-to-dawn curfew was being imposed. Only four months after Nigeria's 25.4 million voters re-elected Shagari to a second four-year term, it appeared that a bloodless military coup-or at least an attempt-had taken place in Africa's most populous country (pop. about 85 million...
...Robots of Dawn, Asimov...