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YOU thought the Queen of England had it bad this year? Look at what happened to NBC, the king of television just three years ago. There was the embarrassing flop of the Olympic triplecast, the network's heavily promoted tie-in with cable TV.
THE 100-year-old Bridgeport house, long abandoned, had been torched last year, but its foundation was still solid. On a recent weekday afternoon a dozen workers were busy hammering nails into floorboards, installing windows in reshaped frames and cutting long wooden boards in half with power saws. The men and women wore construction hats, thick gloves and goggles, and looked very much like seasoned construction workers.
THE cry on the lips of the fanatical Hindus who stormed and destroyed an obscure mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya was deafening and terse: "Jai Sri Ram!" ("Hail Lord Ram!"). The cry on the lips of the mujahadeen who roared into Kabul last spring was also terse: "Allahu Akbar!" ("God Is Great!").
Accustomed to modern synagogues that are starkly abstract, New Yorkers may do a double take when they see the recently drafted plans for the new Congregation Beit Yaakov synagogue at 11-13 East 63d Street. Its lavishly neo-classical facade, built of a creamy gray French limestone, would have four Corinthian columns, about 20 feet high, supporting a full entablature and framed by rusticated walls. Beit Yaakov, a Sephardic congregation, now worships in the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, 5 East 62d Street. "They've been sharing space and now they want their own building," explained Caroline Kane, a staff preservationist at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which approved the project last month. She said the congregation hoped to begin the work immediately. (Telephone messages left for the congregation's president were not returned.)
How bad was the Giants' humiliating 19-0 loss to the Phoenix Cardinals today? Let us count the ways: *It was the first time the Giants had been shut out since the Chicago Bears beat them, 21-0, in January 1986 in the playoffs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 9, 1992, covering December 13, 1992.
Whitney Houston
Eric Clapton
Ice Cube
Michael Bolton
Garth Brooks
1992K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (born 1899)[†]
Kenneth Colin Irving, was a Canadian businessman whose business began with a family sawmill in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, in 1882. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
1992Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1899)[†]
Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist. He was also a polo player and the owner of a significant stable of Thoroughbred racehorses.
In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people[†]