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...Fred Claire, the Dodgers' general manager, knew something was up when O'Malley called on Jan. 4 requesting that they meet the next day, Sunday, at 10:30 a.m. "When I hung up the phone," Claire said, "I thought to myself, 'He's going to sell.' It's not unusual to meet on Sunday, but what was unusual was that in 30 years, I really couldn't think of a time when Peter didn't say what we needed to talk about...
...FRED ASTAIRE Dances with vacuum cleaners? TV ads digitize an ungainly partner for the elegant dancer...
...NATIONS: U.N. officials furiously screening 80,000 pieces of undelivered mail found yet another pair of letter bombs late Monday night. Identical to the two found earlier that day, the bombs were addressed to the U.N. office of Al-Hayat and fitted into greeting card-sized envelopes. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said all four bombs were delivered through the U.S. Postal Service and may have been at the U.N. since last week. Monday brought the bombing campaign's first casualties when one device exploded at the Al-Hayat newspaper's London headquarters; two people were injured, one seriously. At least...
...NATIONALE NEDERLANDEN BUILDING: A structure as playful as this deserves a nickname. And Frank Gehry and Croatian-born architect Vladimir Milunic's new building on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague has one. It's called Fred and Ginger, after its twin towers: one flirty and curvilinear, the other solid and upright. The staggered windows and rippled riverfront facade reflect the adjacent row houses even as the building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings...
...would give his campaign manager, Bill Lacy, long disquisitions on the flaws of the current system. An underdog against a better-financed Democrat, Thompson was finally exasperated enough by conventional campaigning to don battered boots and lease a red pickup to travel the state talking about how "Ol' Fred" would bring common sense to Washington. Voters loved the whole bit, even when it came from a rich lawyer with a Washington lobbying practice...