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...sovereignty of the United States of America was first formally acknowledged" by a foreign power. In 1781 London dispatched Admiral George Brydges Rodney to punish the Statian "nest of vipers." Wrote Rodney: "Had it not been for this infamous island, the American Revolution could not possibly have subsisted." In five months Rodney stripped the Golden Rock of booty then worth as much as ?4 million (as high as $100 million by today's values). The island never recovered from Rodney's revenge, and after 17 changes of ownership over 150 years, involving the English, Dutch and the French...
...town hall to hear a Southern-drawled sermon on sin, a number of students decided to be sophomoric. Some heckled Graham as a fascist, others set off the hall's fire alarm and cut closed-circuit TV cables that were carrying his message to 5,000 listeners in five other auditoriums. The preacher, now 61, took his hazing with saintly calm. "I hope for that sort of thing," he said. "It adds to the excitement...
...particularly persuasive as a celebrity auctioneer at a charity sale at Christie's galleries in Manhattan: "Give me a 50, a 50, a 50, let's see a 60, a 65. Don't scratch your nose because I'm very observant." His spiel swiftly sold five lots of porcelain objets d'art, raising $1,160 for the World Wildlife Fund. Cronkite said he learned his patter from the Lucky Strike tobacco auctioneers, who were last on radio when he was still a cub wire-service reporter. No matter. Impressed, Christie's Head Auctioneer...
DIED. Howard Dalton, 42, Washington State businessman; of lung cancer; in Seattle. After he learned of his disease in 1978, Dalton launched a campaign for legislation to waive the five-month waiting period required before terminally ill people can receive Social Security disability benefits; while the House is still considering the idea, the Senate passed the Dalton amendment...
...bedroom unit-and speculators can make more money buying existing properties, raising the rents and selling out a few years later. Construction financing is expensive and difficult to get. Says Robert Mascaro, an Atlanta property manager: "We don't just pick up the phone like we did five or six years ago and say, 'I want $2 million...