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...deaths. Seventeen pilots have been killed in accidents since the Thunderbirds began flying in May 1953, two last year. But the Thunderbirds have enthralled 154 million spectators in all 50 states and 45 foreign countries. Overseas, they demonstrate U.S. aerial prowess; at home, they serve as a flying recruiting poster. Says Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr: "There will be criticism, that's inevitable. But it won't lead to abandonment of the Thunderbirds...
...rare Solidarity poster plastered on the wall of a Warsaw train station last week showed Jaruzelski as a blind man, wearing his customary dark glasses and feeling his way along with a white stick. The mocking caption: LEADER, LEAD US. For all its cruel imagery and satirical intent, the drawing is an apt image of the general's predicament. Although he has subdued all overt opposition by force, Jaruzelski is groping his way, amid formidable problems, toward a very uncertain future for Poland. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Warsaw and Johanna McGeary with Haig
None of us can quite figure out when this obsession with the Forty-Niners began. It must have started some time this summer, though, because when we returned to school this fall, gone were the posters of California surfers, Hawaiian sunsets and her beloved golden retriever. In their place were Forty Niner team schedules, individual pictures of the players, and a monstrous poster of the team in its full splendor. Forty-Niner pennants decorated her bulletin board, and Sunday afternoons were devoted to tracking down the Forty-Niner results, preempting all other television shows if the team happened...
...National Conference of Catholic Bishops feels the naming of a nuclear sub Corpus Christi is "very near sacrilegious" [Dec. 21]. What then do they call the methods of their "brother," Father Corrado Catani [Aug. 17], in promoting his "Jesus-Jeans," in which he uses a titillating Playboy-type poster bearing the caption He Who Loves Me, Follows Me? Now that I would call sacrilegious...
Laura Ashley stores present buyers with a carefully planned atmosphere of gentility: china cups sprinkled with dainty flowers, velvet or taffeta ball gowns with lace collars, ruffled canopy curtains atop four-poster beds. Half of the sales come from women's clothes, the other half from decorating products. The firm traces its success to the distinctive, neo-Victorian look of all its goods, which creates a setting where Charlotte and Emily Brontë could easily feel at home. Says Peter Revers, president of the firm's American operation: "Laura Ashley sells lifestyles, not products per se-English life...