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...life of his subject. The book opens in the spring of 1884 with a tired and white-bearded Whitman, who has just purchased a house in unlovely (Kaplan's word) Camden, N.J. This is the Whitman who splashes in the bathtub, sleeps late, and depends on a cane to move around. In the second chapter, Kaplan describes Whitman's last days. The rest of the biography takes Whitman's life in chronological order from his birth in chapter three, so our last picture of the poet frames the 65-year-old moving into his Camden house. Kaplan's stately...
...year-old daughter made the trip to watch Bob...Good news from the doctor: forward Greg Britz, who has been out since the Northeastern game, is, according to Murray, "doing real well," while freshman center Phil Falcone, hurt at Colgate, has traded in his crutches for a cane and looks to be back...
...left is going to mount an offensive, December would be an almost ideal month. It is harvest time for major export crops-coffee, sugar cane and cotton-and disruption in the fields could deal the shaky economy a crippling blow. Leftists are also concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin...
...world output and has enjoyed a good harvest. But sugar in that country is now winding up as an important source of automotive fuel instead of as a sweetener on dinner tables. Brazil has embarked on a crash program to manufacture ethyl-alcohol automobile fuel from sugar cane. And last month, when the Persian Gulf war halted oil shipments from Iraq, which supplies 50% of Brazil's petroleum imports, the government slapped an emergency ban on all new sugar export contracts. The action is expected to remove at least 500,000 metric tons of the commodity from the world...
Since then, Niatross has rolled on to eleven straight victories. He swept the Cane Pace and the Little Brown Jug-the first two legs of the pacing Triple Crown-setting a track record in one of them. In the weeks before the Messenger Stakes, he kept in trim by running a time trial alongside Thoroughbreds at Lexington, Ky. Head held high in the distinctive pacer's posture, his legs whipping a high-speed dressage. Niatross flew around the track in 1:49 1/5, smashing the world record for a pacing mile by 2 4/5 sec.-even bigger than...