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Sport Exchange. Castro also said that 1) former President Nixon had "a personal hostility against Cuba," but that President Ford does not; 2) the CIA had organized and subsidized numerous assassination plots against him; 3) it would have been "absurd, irresponsible, crazy-and a very dangerous measure" for Cuba to have plotted the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as some theorists have suggested; 4) the OAS, "which has had a sad role as an instrument of U.S. domination," was no longer trustworthy or useful...
...soon swung into the wind and went back to work. The flight deck erupted with the frenetic precision of "launch and recovery," sending up 40 planes, like a parking lot emptying at rush hour. Phantoms, Intruders, Corsair II light attack bombers, as well as ugly-goose Hummers with their absurd-looking radar dishes, vaulted off the catapults with a roar and a swoop, 15 seconds apart. Within minutes, other planes were simultaneously coming in for "recovery," the "controlled crashes," as one flyer put it, that pass for carrier landings...
Another proposal offered by Mr. Ferrara was the voucher system. He proposed that, "...every parent would receive the average amount of tax dollars spent on his child, say $1000 in voucher form." He argued that this plan would, "benefit mostly the poor." This is absurd. If the money were distributed in that fashion, families with children in better than average quality schools would under no circumstances allow them to change schools. Families with children in lower quality schools would by necessity have limited mobility and choice of schools in the public system. In a private school market, those with more...
...Henry who has become a prisoner of his own legend. It is "America's absurd naivete" that has become a prisoner of its own created legend of Kissinger's infallibility, and is now desperately demanding the legend be true...
...There's a hum on this street," says Sandy Dennis, looking down a line of lighted marquees in the heart of Broadway, "a feeling of encouragement that hasn't been around for a long, long time." Dennis is starring in Absurd Person Singular, her first Broadway hit in ten years. Her success, along with the return of several other top actors, marks an unexpected renaissance of Broadway. After years of frustration over a Great White Way beset by urban squalor, rocketing costs and deserting audiences, Broadway is enjoying the kind of lively season that seemed to have disappeared...