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...Smyrna's dynasty survives. The five-member town commission took all of ten minutes to name Brother Knox to fill out the remaining 2 1/2 years of Sam's term. Said Knox: "Sam will be my right arm." Municipal policies will remain unchanged, and voters may not even notice that a new man is in charge: born 20 minutes apart 67 years ago, now with the same type eyeglasses and portly build, Sam and Knox are identical twins...
...high-risk group, are among the first health workers infected by means other than contaminated needles. One, who suffers from acne, was splattered in the face and mouth with blood when a stopper popped off a tube. Another, an emergency-room worker, applied pressure to a patient's bleeding arm with her chapped hands. A CDC epidemiologist said that such cases are extremely rare and should not be a cause for alarm...
...politics, but, as so often happens in such emotional matters, the study is haphazard. There is every reason to believe that Kennedy's desire for women was as strong when he was Senator and candidate as it was when he was President. Yet there were no sightings of him arm in arm on a lonely night street, no public confessions by inamoratas, no telephone records or photos. The crowded turmoil of his campaign was his screen. Attractive women and men were almost always around, even in his bedrooms as he changed clothes, lounged, ate or napped. Gary Hart's very...
...would become Canada's largest corporate takeover, and it is already a political football. When the House of Commons returns to work this week from Easter recess, lawmakers may take up the proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Dome Petroleum by the Canadian arm of Chicago-based Amoco, fifth largest U.S. oil company. Dome's board, faced with $4.9 billion in debt, last week accepted the offer. But Toronto-based TransCanada PipeLines, which underbid Amoco by $600 million, vows to keep up the fight...
Then someone tapped me on the shoulder. My roommate had caught up with me and she grinned as she slipped her arm through mine. As we walked along together, I suddenly knew that there was a very concrete reason for my participation in this apparently futile demonstration. I wanted my roommate to feel safe as she came back from the Quad or returned books to a library late at night. I wanted her to be able to go anywhere at any time without fear. And I wanted that same freedom of movement for myself...