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The supplement is studded with advertisements from state-operated firms plugging such products as amber, furs and musical instruments. The Soviets paid some $300,000 for the insert. It ran in 900,000 copies of the Journal in the Eastern U.S., Asian and European editions.
The downtown Boston store grossed over $1 million last Monday in a price-slashing extravaganza which included furs, diamonds, oriental rugs and high fashion clothing from some of Boston's most prestigious stores, says advertising copy chief Maria J. DiChiaria.
Liberace spoke reverently to his fans of motherhood, country and religion -- in earlier days his act featured a woman dressed as a nun outstretched in spiritual ecstasy as he played the Ave Maria -- but he poked constant fun at himself. His little-boy smirkiness brought out maternal feelings in women...
The accounts of the famine are excruciating to read. Arthur Koestler, then an ardent Communist, was traveling through the Ukraine by train. He recalls women outside his compartment window holding up babies who looked like "embryos out of alcohol bottles." For soup, people boiled rats, nettles, tree bark and the...
In any case, the secret was out. Rafsanjani was evidently alarmed enough to take strong action to counter Al Shiraa's story and perhaps to cover up his own dealings with the Great Satan. In a speech to the Iranian parliament last Tuesday, Rafsanjani confirmed McFarlane's visit but added...