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...power: the U.S. Three American sealing schooners denied Vernet's authority, so Vernet seized them and took one ship with its crew to Buenos Aires for prosecution. There U.S. Consul George Slacum demanded that Vernet be prosecuted for piracy. When the Argentines demurred, the patrolling U.S. Navy corvette Lexington went to wreak vengeance. Commander Silas Duncan attacked Vernet's headquarters at Soledad, spiked all the cannons, blew up all the ammunition, sacked the settlement, and sailed away with seven of Vernet's aides in irons (they were eventually released in Montevideo, but Argentine demands for compensation went...
Among the most active churches in the U.S. is the small and simple St. Peter's Lutheran 5 Church on Lexington Avenue in midtown Manhattan. St. Peter's, which opened in 1977, adorns the base of Hugh Stubbins Jr.'s 59-story Citicorp Center. Although it is not, strictly speaking, part of the Citicorp skyscraper, it too was designed by Stubbins and fits masterfully into his overall architectural vision. Stubbins' church holds its own at the foot of the somewhat brutish 915-ft. Citicorp tower. The church's uncluttered, skylit interiors were created by Vignelli...
...third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson's death, he killed a fellow officer in a quarrel; William Bell was ordered to be shot by his commander-in-chief, in a letter in Lee's own hand, January 14, 1864, in a camp outside Lexington. Instead, he escaped by knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion. He named his son Seward Alaska Bell after that Secretary of State and his purchase of territory from the Russians, and died in 1902, after being twice turned down for enlistment...
Irwin I. Shapiro Lexington, Mass...
That would be positive for the economy as a whole, in the long run, but it hurts retailers right now. Economist Otto Eckstein, the chairman of Data Resources, Inc., a Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, foresees marked Christmas-spending cutbacks among lower-and middle-income people. These are the consumers who depend most heavily on revolving credit, where interest rates sometimes reach 20% and 21% for purchase payments dragged beyond 30 days. Says Eckstein: "The more you go into blue-collar items, which are found in stores like Sears and K mart, the worse the prospects." Adds Robert Sakowitz, president...