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...conclusion then that 'continual mindfulness' could certainly not mean that my little conscious self should be entirely responsible for marshalling and arranging all my thoughts, for it simply did not know enough...I began to suspect that thought, which I had always before looked on as a cart horse to be driven, whipped, and plodding between shafts, might be really a Pegasus, so suddenly did it alight beside me from places I had no knowledge...
Since its birth in 1900, the Labor Party has always been closely tied to the unions, which wield more than 80% of the voting strength at Labor Party conferences. Up to and throughout the '60s, unions were clearly the horse to the Labor Party's cart. But now the accumulated strain of the inflationary '70s seems to have caused the once cooperative unions to bolt. Wilson's fate in the Oct. 10 elections depends largely on his ability to convince voters that he will be able to rein in the runaways...
...between Secret Service men patrolling the grounds, including regular reports on the whereabouts of "Searchlight," as Nixon is code-named. Then the Secret Service got wise and all that the TV crews could hear was an electronic hissing. But newsmen did learn that Nixon was still driving a golf cart to his office a short distance from the house. He was seen in the swimming pool and walking about the grounds without crutches or a cane...
...morning. By 10 o'clock customs and immigration offices are overflowing: upper-middle-class professional men with their well-dressed families "on holiday," civil servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have six months vacation now, but I will go back and work for the new government-if they don't throw...
...that the physician remove it. When he did, his pain disappeared. Gould's theory was confirmed when he developed the same ailment. Golfer Gould's habit of carrying golf balls in his left back pocket never bothered him until he rode around the course in a golf cart. Then he too developed-and just as quickly cured-his own case of the back-pocket blues...