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Students in Canaday Hall did follow instructions to put heavy tape on their windows in case they shattered, but more than a few seized the opportunity to offer commentary on the occasion: one window bore the legend "Gloria we luv ya." The back of one Weld North window sported the message "YIKES...
Students were also evacuated from the 18-story Mather House tower beginning at about noon. Senior Tutor Terry Shaller said that although windows there are made of shatter-resistant safety glass, students were told to tape them up as a precautionary measure...
...collectives, which range in size from a few people to several thousand, have gone in for all manner of enterprise. Visitors to the Yuying (Civilized Heroes) market in Peking, for instance, will find tape decks and stationery for sale. Small group-owned businesses this year plan to build 59 hotels in Peking alone. The most daring of these experiments has seen a few collectives sell "internal shares" to employees, on which they stand to gain "bonuses" (the capitalist-sounding term dividends is still avoided). When a photoprinting service in Shanghai offered stock for sale earlier this year, thousands of people...
...make it," says Pilot Masami Takahama, as his plane pitches and yaws out of control. "Hey, there's a mountain," he tells his crew at one point. In the passenger cabin, a flight attendant says, "Hold your babies tightly." The last words recorded: "Pull up! Pull up!" The tape ends with a crashing sound...
...after taking over the information agency in 1981, he produced a worldwide television extravaganza called Let Poland Be Poland, which featured Frank Sinatra crooning Ever Homeward in pidgin Polish. The show drew howls of ridicule. But Wick has scored some coups. It was the USIA that put together the tape recording, played with such damning effect at the United Nations, of the voice of a Soviet fighter pilot as he coolly shot down Korean Airlines Flight 007 in 1983 ("The target is destroyed...