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This same mindlessness extended to Republican delegations. They voted as they were instructed to vote. No one dared to bolt from the fold--indeed they would not have been in Miami Beach in the first place if they did dare--and their week was one of idle frustration. Everything was settled before they arrived. Their role was predetermined and precisely scheduled. They fit neatly into the scenario, but beyond a certain point they became unneeded. For a small delegation there were no parties at luxurious Miami Beach homes, no visits with Party bigwigs. There was only a mid-priced hotel...
...bicycle theft. Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not footproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to a root thieves will often settle for the rear wheel as frame. One of the authors of this article had hi Raleigh stolen while writing the place, in fact...
...Some two months ago the steeple of the red-brick Hobbs Street Church of Christ in Athens, Ala. (pop. 14,000), was sliced in two by a bolt of lightning. This may have been prophetic, for now the Hobbs Street congregation is split just as surely, and all because of a bathing suit. The one-piece white swimsuit was worn by nubile blonde Becky Marshall, 17, as she won a Fourth-of-July beauty contest to name "Miss Spirit of America." Trouble was, Becky's father, Charles Marshall, was the minister of the Hobbs Street church. Aghast, the elders...
...tyrant") that even a Washington speechwriter might discard as overly florid. As portrayed by Jones, the hero is certainly fulsome enough to be a major political figure. Joseph Sargent's direction is energetic, consisting in large measure of dogging his actors with a mobile camera as they bolt through endless doorways along the corridors of power. -Jay Cocks
...Home sewing used to be the dumping ground for the fabric industry," says Carol Bird, president of Off the Bolt, a chain of fabric shops in Los Angeles. "Now all that has changed. If a woman sees a dress she likes in a store, she can come into a fabric shop, ask for the identical fabric and get it." Five years ago, there were 2,300 fabric stores in the U.S.; today there are 12,000. Most popular sellers have been double knits, which are strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making...