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THE Mercedes came tooling down Michigan Avenue. It swerved to the curb and a white woman in her 30's poked her head out the passenger side window. "Mr. Terkel," she called. "Oh, Mr. Terkel! We read your book. We loved it! Thank you so much."
"BEING a line cook is like going through a war every night," said Melissa DeMayo, the pastry chef at Restaurant 44 in the Royalton Hotel in New York. "I think that's why they call it 'behind the line.' It's like a battlefield." Ms. DeMayo was explaining why so many women who are professional cooks are pastry chefs rather than line cooks -- the people who stand in front of the hot stoves -- or executive chefs.
A Federal judge yesterday approved an unusual settlement in a civil suit filed against a white police officer charged with killing a black man, saying he hoped to head off unrest like that which wracked Los Angeles after the Rodney G. King verdict. An undisclosed financial award was a central part of the settlement reached with the family of an upstate New York man, Jimmy Lee Bruce Jr., who died in a 1986 scuffle with an off-duty officer. Yet the judge also added a less tangible element: he is requiring the two sides to sit down and talk. His aim, Judge Gerard L. Goettel told a packed Federal courtroom in White Plains, is to "bring something out of this tragic situation which will be of value."
Sales of North American-built cars and light trucks rose 18.3 percent in late April. While automotive analysts said the gain fell short of a full-fledged recovery, it provided a lift to beleaguered auto makers and retail dealers. Sales of domestic cars rose 10.8 percent in late April, to 235,864, and domestic light-truck sales rose 31 percent, to 163,389. The total sales of domestic vehicles, 399,253, compared with 300,075 in the corresponding period of 1991.
Fatullah last saw his home a year ago when a rocket killed two of his sons, destroyed the mud house and forced him to flee to Kabul, the capital. On Monday, the 65-year-old farmer began his trek back, waking at 4 A.M. and walking four hours in rubber shoes, a woolen blanket wrapped around his shoulders, up the winding dirt roads to the town of Paghman, 15 miles west of Kabul.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 1992, covering May 6, 1992.
Def Leppard
The Cure
Kris Kross
Queen
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1992Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Brendan Gallagher is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger and alternate captain for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fifth round, 147th overall, by the Canadiens in the 2010 NHL entry draft.
1992Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor[†]
Byun Baek-hyun, known mononymously as Baekhyun, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo, its subgroup Exo-K and its subunit Exo-CBX. In 2019, Baekhyun became a leader of the supergroup SuperM.
1992Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian basketball player[†]
Jonas Valančiūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the fifth overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. He has also played for the Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans, and Washington Wizards.
1992Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer (born 1901)[†]
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades.
In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people[†]