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...great philospher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
HOSPITALIZED. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 72, son of the 32nd President and Democratic Congressman representing New York's 20th District from 1949 to 1954; in critical but improving condition following surgery after he, Wife Linda, 47, and Son Jack, 9, were thrown from a horse-drawn cart on their farm in Millbrook, N.Y.; in Poughkeepsie...
...Black men maneuvered metal grocery carts through the crowd, scavenging for returnable beer cans. French Quarter etiquette encourages you to leave your can in the gutter for these people to find--it's the only neighborhood I know that practices philanthropic littering. Outside the Royal Sonesta Hotel we saw three obliterated I.U. students trying to help a scavenger by bellowing up at the people carousing on the hotel balconies to throw down their empties. An answering rain of hard metal cans showered to the pavement, along with an inflatable sex doll on a string. Those who were sober enough...
...rate I was following a trail of dollar bills that led up Fifth Avenue when I came across a bag lady pushing a shopping cart full of greenbacks. The "do not walk" signal was flashing at the intersection, but one of the rotating wheels on the bottom of the cart had gotten stuck and the poor old girl was pushing it around in circles in the middle of the street. Gallantly I offered her assistance, staring down psychotic foreign-born cabdrivers until we reached the safety of the curb...
...England coast in 1985, one Amica homeowner policyholder was unable to get any government agency to remove a ten-ton tree that had fallen onto her house. When she called Amica for help, an adjuster came out and made arrangements the same day for a construction company to cart the tree away...