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...obviously want badly to trade with the U.S.," said John Ray, vice president of the H.B. Fuller Co., an adhesive and chemicals manufacturer. "They could buy our products from our plants overseas, but they are not interested. They want it from the U.S. directly." The reason is partly economic: freight rates are lower and delivery dates more precise from the U.S. But the Cubans also want a legitimate trading relationship and acceptance as an equal partner...
...heap of fame among show biz folk and set her on the road to becoming a big-time theatrical producer. Actors, agents, composers, publishers-and, of course, psychiatrists-loved to mix with Adela and her third husband, Peter Holzer, who at one time or another has owned shipping and freight-forwarding companies. Everything about Adela, who claims to be 43, reeks of wealth: her multicarat jewels, her Halston gowns, her Manhattan town house (the taxes alone are $14,-000), her country home in New Jersey, complete with pool, sauna, gym and tennis court. So when Adela started jabbering...
...describes his House, Quincy, as "a pretty livable place," especially his suite which the University renovated before he returned to school this fall. Still, he cannot use the House library and part of the Junior Common Room. He must follow an outdoor route to the grille and take the freight elevator to the dining hall. He feels students like himself, less severely disabled than Drafts, should live in regular student housing. With some renovation, Mather and Leverett could more easily accomodate the disabled than other Houses. Currier is a fourth potentially accessible House but none of the shuttle buses have...
...deliberate precision of composition intensifies the effect of the detail's clarity. The pictures are carefully drawn into their frames. In Epstein's shot of trains, freight cars stand placed right and left, blocking out a space in which the smoke of a man's cigarette spirals into clouds Monet might have painted. The arrangement of bathers on Rubinfien's beach and stairs is reminiscent of classical paintings like Raphael's "School of Athens," especially since Rubenfien captures one old man who could easily pass for Socrates emerging from the water. These photographs all evoke multitudes of other images--perhaps...
...next ten hours the New Rochelle freight terminal was a battleground. Twenty sharpshooters spread out into houses and onto nearby roofs waiting for a shot at Cowan, and police helicopters whirled overhead. By midafternoon, police got inside the building and moved cautiously from office to office, looking for Cowan. They finally found him, dead by his own gun, as darkness descended...