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...father of two teenagers, the probe threatened to end the career to which he had devoted 30 of his 46 years. "Newspapers are going to have a field day," Blanchard fretted. "My children are going to be humiliated." He abandoned his exercise regime and stared blankly out his office window instead. His unease mounted as his colleagues avoided him. "As chief of public affairs, his phones rang all the time," his widow Connie, an elementary school teacher, told TIME. "It was very noticeable when all that stopped...
...government's first success story," said Mohib Itani, director of the country's electricity company. Lebanon had spent more than $1 billion as it doubled electrical capacity in the years since the civil war ended. After watching the Israeli air raid on Bsalim power station from his office window, Itani shed tears of rage...
Give 'em while they can smell 'em. --A SIGN IN A FLORIST-SHOP WINDOW During the '70s Ken Babbs and I put out a little homegrown periodical called Spit in the Ocean. The idea was to have a different editor for each issue and let them call the deal. Dr. Timothy Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop...
...down; Margaret never really recovered, and the episode may have left the Queen permanently incapable of disciplining her family. Margaret's subsequent marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones exploded in mutual infidelities after a few years. Elizabeth could be formidably cool. Once, Margaret threatened to jump out her window if a friend who was hosting a house party did not leave his guests to comfort her at home. Panicked, the host called the Queen. "Carry on with your party," she said. "Her room is on the ground floor...
...their country's nascent gnp. And because we've taught the monks to scrupulously detoxify their dyes before dumping them upstream from the tiny, unspoiled Nepalese villages (whose honey-skinned children are so to die for that Jan and I actually adopted one), your purchase of our hand-stitched window dressing will help save the planet for future generations...