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NORODOM SIHANOUK King of Cambodia Wilderness years: 1970 to last month Reason for losing office: Overthrown in a right-wing coup by forces friendly...
...Democrat who chairs the antitrust panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Metzenbaum vowed to hold hearings and denounced the proposed combination as a ''megamonster'' that could overcharge consumers. Perhaps the biggest question of all last week was why the tough-as-nails Malone, 52, long regarded as the undisputed king of cable, would agree to sell TCI and assume the lesser role of vice chairman -- to Smith's chairman and chief executive officer -- in the new company. Malone had loomed as the * potential big winner of the Paramount fight, the master strategist who would run lucrative Paramount movies...
...region's fragile economic and social balance. Like other border cities, El Paso and Juarez rely on each other: El Paso for Mexican shoppers, Juarez for U.S. jobs. Relationships and families go back for generations. ''The Mexicans are taking jobs that no one here is taking,'' says Henry King, a business researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso. He estimates that the shadow work force now shut out accounts for 30% of all sales in El Paso. Merchants on once thriving streets near the three international bridges complain that business has plummeted as much...
...hope Cuomo will give me the chance to cast my ballot for someone. Harold Freiman Berkeley Your article paints Cuomo as a man who is deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism. It attributes to the Governor a lifelong fealty to the ideals of St. Thomas More, the statesman-martyr under King Henry VIII in 16th century England. Cuomo's fealty, however, crumbles in a most crucial aspect. St. Thomas More put his faithfulness to Roman Catholic teaching ahead of his political career and even his life when he was martyred for not assenting to the King's divorce and marriage...
...breakthrough came at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. ''I called out some of our big Fletcher Henderson arrangements,'' remembered Goodman, ''and the boys seemed to get the idea.'' The crowd stopped dancing and rushed the bandstand. The swing era had begun, and Benny, then and thereafter, was its king. In 1937, he earned $125,000, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt received $50,000; like Babe Ruth, he was having a better year. In | 1938, the Goodman band (along with players from the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands, including Basie) played its unprecedented, historic date in Carnegie Hall, moving...