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...they will play to 1.5 million fans during their three-month tour of the Americas, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones are only tourists in some places. After two performances at the San Antonio Convention Center, the British rock megastars decided to pose for pictures at a famous Texas landmark. As they gathered together near a wooden door, it suddenly opened and a woman in her 60s emerged. "Would you mind not leaning against the door?" she snapped. "You're blocking our way to the Alamo." Jagger & Co. stepped aside and regrouped for their photo, then headed for their...
...assistant district attorney's forensic legerdemain neatly circumvented the Supreme Court's landmark decision by prosecuting a doctor for an abortion without saying as much. The conviction, returned by a largely-Catholic jury, has, in turn, successfully intimidated obstetricians from performing second trimester abortions, especially those of the kind Edelin executed...
Rosovsky, however, refuses to accept the mantle of the landmark education reformer. "We're not writing a Redbook," he said last week. He said that rather than aiming for a final definitive report, he plans to oversee an ongoing discussion for a year or more that will produce various recommendations. "If five or ten proposals emanate from the study," he said, it will "please me as much as a final report...
...landmark agreement was one for an astounding $23 million in funds from the Monsanto Company, the St. Louis Mo., corporation that makes various chemical-related products, its most famous one being Astroturf...
Where to hold the talks proved an almost insurmountable problem. The Austrians first offered a Salzburg landmark called Wasserschloss Fürstenbrunn, but U.S. officials apologetically rejected the mansion; as they explained it, the name-Watercastle-evoked some unfortunate memories. Then the Egyptians turned down Mirabell Castle because Sadat has a mild heart condition and preferred not to climb two flights of stairs. Finally, both sides settled on the former throne room of the Salzburg Residenz, a onetime archiepiscopal palace equipped with an elevator...