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...White House surrendered two unsub-poenaed tapes to him, as well as a number of written documents. Nobody would disclose what they concerned. But the action signified a new spirit of cooperation by the White House, as did the Administration's decision to let Jaworski's assistants comb White House files for more Watergate-related documents. Even so, other documents that Jaworski requested, including some concerning activities of the White House plumbers, cannot be found...
Squads of police have begun to comb the city to round up last-minute draftees. Those who can pay for freedom ($200 is the going rate) are released. Those who cannot end up in a muddy makeshift training ground at Prey Sar, a former prison camp. There a weeping new soldier told his story: "The police came to the restaurant where I worked at 9 a.m. and took me away. I have a wife and six children. They do not know where I am. I do not want to be a soldier. I don't want...
...lonely grey-beards who comb sports statistics in places like Podunk, Kansas, are not apt to be upset by the Crimson lacrosse team's ninth place rating in New England, but it is with the stigma that the stickmen journey to New Hampshire today for an all-important tilt with fourth-ranked Dartmouth...
...skins tracked the mammoth through the taiga-the deep silent forests of pines and birches. Nomadic tribesmen pushed up from the south, grazing their cattle and roaming on. Then the thunder of horses reverberated across the steppes, bearing the predatory banners of Genghis Khan. Chinese prospectors ranged northward to comb the wilderness for ginseng roots, the source of miraculous cures. The land echoed with the sad clanking of the chains that fettered the czars' prisoners, and then with the sighs of all those thousands who continued to be banished, body and soul, after the Bolshevik Revolution. "How many mysteries...
Dave's neighborhood sprouted Wallace signs in 1968; the man with his greased hair looked like a steel worker, tough and uncompromising. They still grease down here; both the fathers and sons; flat-tops with fenders, massive Presley waves, or just a straight comb back. They drag race; '65 Chevies and second-hand Firebirds instead of the old '57 Chevy. They take pills and smoke a little dope and a few drop acid; but most of all they drink. They drink in bars or in alleys; beer after beer; shaking it hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian...