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That is the perspective in which Khe Sanh and Con Thien must be viewed...
They suggested finding an alternate con-cert site-either on state-owned land along the Charles River, or on Harvard property where the Earth People's festival was held last weekend. The City Manager and the concert committee, who made similar, but unsuccessful efforts at relocation last year, agreed to continue their efforts...
...quite as bad as all that, but Ludowici has nevertheless defied the efforts of three Governors, including Maddox, to shut down the speed traps. For years some of the local gas stations also conducted a profitable con game. When an unsuspecting motorist stopped to have his oil checked, the attendant would disable the car by tinkering with the generator or pouring water in the crankcase oil, then suggest that the customer move his crippled vehicle to a nearby garage for repair. Fittingly enough, the repair shop was called "Billy Swindel...
...York harbor-but industrialization has already begun to zero in on the relatively clean areas between. Consolidated Edison appears as one of Boyle's main targets. Despite some effort by the company to modify its plans in the face of public pressure, Boyle regards the controversial projected Con Ed installation at Storm King as a threat with an ultimate effect on wildlife that cannot be measured but will surely be dangerous...
...character whose adventures make up most of the novel's action. Mr. Jiveass Nigger himself, is a young black from the rural South with the unfortunate name of...well...George Washington. Jiveass is a first degree con artist, a black stud who lives off white women and weaves a reality out of the lives he hands off to the world at large. The lies succeed in ripping off everyone but himself, and so he leaves America for Denmark hoping to find out if there is any way to survive without the lies, to see if there is "any mother fucker...