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...getting a little far afield, I know, but I got a point to make: here's a nice island, see, where it's warm all the time and you can just sort of lie around under the palm trees and you don't have to worry about Christmas or any of that stuff at all. I mean, I've never been there myself, but I think I've got as good an idea as the next guy about what the general situation is down there. Take my brother-in-law, for example. When he was in the Navy...
...that right?" he bellowed at a state trooper stationed by the door. "Yes siree, Guvnor," came the loyal reply. Said an observer: "It was almost as if he were presenting himself as the man uniquely qualified to heal the race wounds in America and even further afield...
There is an added incentive: the opportunity to work with an Israeli surveillance system that provides electronic vision from the Gulf of Suez in the south to the Mediterranean in the north, that includes seismic sensors planted as far afield as Lebanon and Syria and that is reputedly far more sophisticated than the old U.S. "McNamara line" along the DMZ in Viet Nam. Among the Israeli improvements on U.S. surveillance gadgetry...
...women's clothing and a wide range of accessories, Saint Laurent rings up sales of $8 million in women's ready-to-wear alone. He has dabbled in towel and sheet designs because they "are like designing scarves," but, unlike Cardin, has declined to venture farther afield of fashion...
...Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield...