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...getaway cars used in the Brink's job, a tan Ford. Inside the building, investigators found bloodstained clothing, incriminating fingerprints and a very observant superintendent named Dennis Vasquez. Vasquez told police and federal agents that just hours before their arrival, he had seen five people load the contents of an apartment into a tan van and other vehicles. From photographs, he and his wife identified the five: Cynthia Priscilla Boston, 33, and her common-law husband, William Johnson, 33; Samuel Smith; Donald Weems, 35, an escaped convict, former Black Panther and suspected Black Liberation Army member; and Marilyn Jean...
...belongs to a class of drugs known as beta blockers that gained widespread use in the 1970s. The drugs block nerve impulses to special sites (beta receptors) in body tissues. They reduce the rate at which the heart beats and the force of its contractions, thus decreasing its work load. More than a dozen beta blockers are in use worldwide, primarily for treatment of severe chest pain (angina), high blood pressure and arrhythmias...
Although she didn't need to work, she began modeling for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. In 1934 she married Hugh Fenwick, but the marriage ended in divorce four years later, a matter she regards to this day as a personal failure. Left with two children and a load of debts, she had little choice but to go hunting for work. The Depression was still on. She finally got a job as a feature writer for Vogue, but only after a long search that opened her eyes to the problems of the poor. One department store refused...
Last year the cost of carrying Tasco's debt load escalated as the company frantically borrowed money from one lender in order to pay off another. At the same time Tasco's hard-pressed farmer customers, equally strapped for cash, began to postpone building plans and cancel orders for hog sheds. With debts of $8.5 million and assets of only $1.2 million, the company filed for bankruptcy last spring and is now in receivership...
...that. But, of course, it was not that simple. What happened was not invasion, but long reciprocal exchange, intellectual barter, as it were. From about 1900 on, European modernism in architecture was imbued with American imagery, preoccupied with issues that became central to the International Style. The Grid, the load-bearing frame and light skin of the new buildings, came to Europe from the Chicago School, whose leader was Louis Sullivan. The Bauhaus ideal of the open plan was transmitted to Germany by Frank Lloyd Wright. Adolf Loos' messianic rejection of ornament in the early 1900s, which became such...