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...turn of the century, Joseph Willard's son had the old five-story building torn down and replaced with a twelve-floor, 450-room French Second Empire structure. With its gilt and marble fixtures, the new Willard was a more refined version of the old. When Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice would light up a cigarette in the main dining room, waiters would hurriedly put a screen around her table...
Robert Kennedy nearly got his clothes torn off in Indiana and California. Middle-aged matrons in the Mountain States and suburbs of the South swoon whenever Ronald Reagan mounts the platform. George Wallace's appearance at the sikeningly plush Sheraton Boston Hotel resembled an old-style political revival. Nelson Rockefeller pulled thousands of Wall St. bankers and their secretaries from the ticker tapes to an hour-long rally in tropical heat. And even cool Eugene McCarthy has had to start kissing babies...
...with School. Armed with everything from bamboo poles to rifles, thousands of workers and students have clashed in bloody battles throughout Kwangtung province and the neighboring Kwangsi region. In the countryside, some peasants have torn up roads leading to their villages to keep out marauding bands of fighters. Repeatedly, during the past month, the railway from Nanning, Kwangsi's capital, to the North Vietnamese border, has been...
...birth in 1948, the West German Deutsche mark scarcely seemed to be a currency that could produce a miracle. Most of the country's war-wrecked industry still lay in ruins; the economy was torn by inflation, black markets, and such a food shortage that hungry city dwellers trekked to the country in hordes to barter their clothes and furniture for farmers' grain and potatoes. Neither gold nor a cushion of foreign exchange backed the infant mark. Yet its creation proved to be the essential underpinning of the Wirtschaftswunder that transformed West Germany into Europe's most...
...case his readers have corrections or additions to offer, Mader has included a blank page that can be torn out and mailed to an East Berlin post office. But one page will hardly suffice...