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Critics still fault the paper's superficiality. Responds Editor John Quinn: "We're not attempting to be the encyclopedia...
Shoppers were lured by such exotic wares as Nigerian cotton shirts, jars of sand and gravel from different parts of the world, Polish boxes, trays and dolls, several volumes from the 1830 Encyclopedia Britannica, and costumes from a 1920s marching band...
...echelon of authority, according to the defendant's former supervisor. He was familiar with a top-secret program for processing encoded Soviet messages and aware that it was being given an "upgraded capability" that would maintain its usefulness into the 1990s. He was the author of a 60-page "encyclopedia" on Soviet communication signals that set forth which ones were to receive top U.S. decoding priority and how quickly each had to be analyzed...
Bertagna manages to transform 250-odd pages of encyclopedia material into attention-grabbing vignettes. Witness the shot of Ryan O'Neal mugging with the 1969 freshman hockey squad--complete with freshman Bertagna--during filming of Love Story at Watson Rink. Bet you never knew that then-freshman coach Bill Cleary '56 helped direct the skating scenes--and stood in for O'Neal during the on-ice shooting...
...work. A description of a Canal Street flea market from New York Places and Pleasures: "Inside, a sizable jungle of loose white and tan shoelaces, Dracula banks which need batteries for pushing out a pale green hand to grasp a coin, among the books one volume of an obsolete encyclopedia and a novel by Clare Boothe Luce." From Mexico Places and Pleasures: "One young man in an exquisite hat and beautifully made dress keeps circulating among American women asking for a household job which would include cooking, cleaning, dress- and hat-making." And this priceless piece of advice from Italy...