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Cambridge, which has its own water supply system, is in better shape. Conrad Fagone, head of the city's Department of Public Works, said yesterday. "There's no immediate emergency for us, and we're holding our own barring a major drought," he said...
Maybe it was Hemingway, or maybe it was Conrad, but the vision conjured up in my mind by the phrase "African Safari" has a lot to do with blood and thunder and hyenas. That and impenetrable forests and magic...
...glad, five years after the fact, that I'd never put much stock in the man as a kid. Next to Hemingway and Conrad, he was nothing. The closest the poor guy would ever come to Hemingway was his first name. The animals, I had been convinced from the age of nine, were probably fake anyway. Still, I always wanted to go on safari even if it was only a defensive maneuver. I figured if things got worse than they had ever been, I would grab a steamer to Kenya and go out fighting. I would either emerge from...
...bring in buyers from other nations more aggressively.'' The only cloud on the horizon is the nagging poor weather-either too much or too little rain-that continues to plague patches of the Midwest and may affect the price of grain over the next few months. Observes Conrad Leslie, a Chicago commodities analyst: "The Soviets are going to be watching the weather in Des Moines and Springfield as well as in Moscow over the next few months. It depends on the weather...
...Joseph Conrad called one of those "unwholesome looking little moral agents of destruction" that now form a recognizable tribe: odd human blanks with politics one centimeter deep and no Dostoyevskian depths at all; well-dressed young men who move around the democratic world on jet planes with forged passports, flipping through small-arms catalogues. That tribe seems to be getting denser and more dangerous. Or at least that is what Agca last week wanted the world to think...