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...that Kennedy's Harvard intellectuals were decamping, abandoning the White House to a bunch of Texas yokels: "It's just a damned lie is what it is. Why, I got this little ole boy, Trillin, who wrote me a brilliant speech called 'The Spirit of St. George.' Smartest little booger you'd ever hope to meet. He can write circles around those Harvard pissants...
...Grafton sends p.i. Kinsey Millhone around the small city of Santa Teresa, Calif., as if her 1974 VW were the pencil in a follow-the-dots puzzle. Armed with matchless powers of observation ("I pictured . . . his nose pierced, a tiny ruby sitting on his nostril like a semiprecious booger") and a genius for the drudgery of detection, Kinsey follows a methodical trail to Isabelle's killer. Waiting in the dark, with her Heckler & Koch gun and her Winchester Silvertip bullets: that's a home where Kinsey calls the shots...
Mickey and Bobby do find some initial success. Their first day in town they land jobs with Booger McCoy (Harry S. Murphy), a big, paranoid toolpusher who's been pushing tools for three days straight, and Mickey is confident he can teach Bobby the meaning of "real work." Then the going gets though, and the tough keep coming to town...
With a Little "S." But Taft and others were sure there were. Colorado's bald-domed Eugene Millikin thought he had flushed a booger out: there was no time limit to Point Four...
Outside of buying such necessities, most of Scurry County's new-rich were living much as before and saving their money. As Joe York's neighbor, Arthur ("Booger Red") Townsend put it: "A man don't need no million dollars, all he needs is some comfortable circumstances...