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Lincoln delivered news about mutual friends--graduates, people with jobs, people at medical school. McInally was hungry for details, maybe because he now lives in a midwestern boondock through which few Harvard paths cross. Cincinnati is not New York or Washington, and if not for his roommate John Keogh, who works in Cincinnati for Procter and Gamble and once played second-string tackle, McInally would almost be starved for familiar faces...
...area was seen as a cultural 'boondock' until last summer. Our discoveries indicate that, far from it, this area shared in the principal development of an economically complex civilization," Lamberg-Karlovsky said Monday...
King of Wings. At Manhattan's West Boondock, tor example, miniskirted waitresses ply the tables while a jazz combo plays softly in the background; there is a wine list, and Diners' Club or Carte Blanche cards are honored. The Player's Choice, a restaurant on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip that claims to be "strictly soul," is jammed to the rafters each night with customers-90% of them white- dining with apparent gusto on such soul specialties as barbecued ribs and yams. Melvin's, a soul-food place in the heart of Boston's department...
...Astronomer Sagan is quoted as saying: "I really doubt that the city slickers of the universe are all that interested in us." Is he kidding? "Galactic boondock" we may be, Dullsville we're not! Think of the fascinating things we're getting up to in Red China, Detroit, Viet Nam, etc. I'm surprised our visitors haven't set up huge airborne bleachers to accommodate all those "city slickers of the universe" who might fancy one of those good-bad films once in a while...
Code of Dishonor. Among Denver's cops there was a code of dishonor that prevented the honest policeman from informing on his criminal companions. The cop who reported to his superiors found himself ostracized. More often than not, he found himself stripped of privileges, walking a boondock beat-or harried out of a job. Even before he turned to active crime, Jerry Sanford investigated a supermarket safecracking, found a night stick on the floor. "I picked it up and put it in my car. I'm not going to fink...