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...last week was, needless to say, at the United Nations. But across town, NATO was conducting an even more tumultuous and unstatesmanlike session. This NATO was not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but the equally embattled National Association of Theater Owners. The gloom at the meeting was almost as thick as the cigar smoke...
PHILADELPHIA. "I am the toughest cop in America," former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo often boasted, a thick finger stabbing the air. Now, as the city's Democratic candidate for mayor, Rizzo puts out much the same message. Billboards and taxis all over the city carry his beefy face and the slogan RIZZO MEANS BUSINESS...
...world (and not a little like Howard Hughes), who just might buy one of Brindsley's sculptures, thereby permitting the sculptor to marry his fiancee, whose father is also expected to drop in before evening's end--WHEN--the lights in the flat go out. Makes things a bit thick for Brindsley you can be sure, but, since the audience can watch as the complications follow in the would-be dark, this is one black-out you might wish would never...
...afternoon of May 2, 1945, when all was quiet, the Friedrichstrasse, from the bridge as far north as one could see, was covered with a thick layer of gray dust. It was impossible to tell, even at very close range, whether the bodies were Russian or German. Anybody who got out of this alive-and I counted 13 on their feet, plus a few wounded in the cellars-will bear...
...Ginger hovered indecisively, Stormfury's scientific director, a soft-spoken meteorologist named R. Cecil Gentry, recommended an attack. Taking off from fields along the East Coast, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, 16 planes headed straight into the thick of the storm, the longest-lived hurricane on record. While instrument-packed planes monitored the tricky "bombing" runs, an Air Force C-130 transport and two U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder jets flying at 22,000 feet dropped hundreds of small explosive cylindrical canisters that sprayed tiny particles of silver iodide in the area outside the eye of the hurricane...