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...that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour of the local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point of self-return: "No good hunter pursues his quarry too far," he rationalizes. "Rather he puts himself in his quarry's place as he looks for the path of flight...
...planes and 2,608 helicopters destroyed in Viet Nam-would continue to keep aerospace firms fairly busy. They would not lose much more than $2 billion of their current $9 billion-a-year military aircraft business, and they might lose a great deal less. Textile and boot manufacturers would suffer, and so-to a lesser extent-would electronics companies, airlines and railroads. The prospects are that war-aggravated inflation would continue, at least for a short period. Many cost increases are programmed into the economy, among them a scheduled 9% pay raise for nearly 3,000,000 federal employees next...
...Broadway musical, and you were my friend for life. It is no wonder that my parents became my friends for life when they took me see Damn Yankees, not only the first musical I had ever seen in the flesh, but one about the Senators winning the pennant to boot...
...ROTC by comparing ROTC with the Anglican Church. Think of ROTC as the Anglican Church, he said. Now, even if we realized that the Anglican Church is teaching ministers here and that is something we think is wrong for a university to allow, we would not want to boot the Church off the campus so promptly and meanly. The argument is wonderfully persuasive. It was hard for faculty people to think of ROTC as being ROTC for so long without a solution. When ROTC became the Anglican Church, it moved farther away and was easier to deal with. Obviously...
...emerge in years. At age 12 he was considered the prize of the Canadian little leagues, and was already being wooed by Montreal. The Bruins moved in by subsidizing all minor-league play in Orr's home town of Parry Sound, Ont.-and refurbishing the Orr homestead to boot. By the time he was 18, Bobby was in the Boston training camp with a two-year contract for $65,000 in his pocket. His teammates initiated him by shaving his body from head to foot, "Better that he got it from us first," growled one Bruin, "because everyone...