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While our younger brothers and sisters are lounging by the pool or even off at investment camp, Japanese high schoolers are still in school--and will be until July 20, when they receive a 40-day recess, their longest of the year. Students, dressed in uniforms, often travel to school seven days a week, preparing for the ultimate test of adolescence: university entrance examinations. While President Clinton has proposed making the "13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary...
XIAN, China: President Clinton just arrived in what must be the longest motorcade the Chinese have ever seen. He has the Treasury Secretary, the Secretary of State, six congressmen and this huge entourage with him -- it just went on for miles. All along the drive through the city, which took at least half an hour, the route was lined with people, sometimes five or six deep. There were maybe 100,000 people out on the street, just to get a glimpse of President Clinton driving by in his limo. The impression was that they were drawn by the spectacle -- they...
...lately. In May we won the J.D. Power & Associates award as the No. 1 domestic airline for customer satisfaction for flights over 500 miles. This isn't just an industry-insider accolade; it comes from our regular customers. We're sure that anyone who wants to take the longest flight of all--to the moon--would welcome flying TWA. DON CASEY Executive Vice President, Marketing Trans World Airlines St. Louis...
DIED. DOROTHY STICKNEY, 101, original spouse in Broadway's longest-running play, the fusty comedy Life with Father; in Manhattan. Stickney starred with Howard Lindsay, the play's co-author and her real-life husband. In 1939 the couple left a glitch-filled opening night in tears, but audiences adored the play's domestic drollery, sitting through seven years and some 3,200 performances...
...first lesson in creative theater advertising, for "You will not fail to thrill to The Sound of Music" was the main quote outside London's Palace Theatre for many years to come. When the sign finally came down, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's last collaboration had become the longest-running American musical in London theater history...