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...Conrad C. Fagone, commissioner of public works, said Tuesday that the defects in the tunnel were present in the original construction. Because the tunnel was improperly sealed, he said, water seeps into it when it rains, freezing during the winter and creating hazardous driving conditions...
...Conrad Hilton Hotel, where the President was to address a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, was patrolled by hundreds of uniformed police, scores of detectives equipped with walkie-talkies, undercover agents in jeans and leather jackets, plus plainclothes policewomen in slacks...
...Conrad C. Fagone, Cambridge commissioner of public works, said yesterday the underpass "couldn't make it through another winter" without the repair job, which will cost about $200,000 and will take four to eight weeks to complete...
...profit motive was plentifully in evidence at Conrad Hilton convention headquarters, where hucksters did a brisk business in Star Trek artifacts from space suit emblems to books (Bantam and Ballantine together have printed more than 6 million Star Trek paperbacks) to a $5 kit containing a dozen scale blueprints of the Enterprise. There were photographs for sale of Skipper Kirk, played by William Shatner, and First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a pointy-eared half human, half Vulcanite who has become a cult unto himself. Many of the new Spock generation attending the convention wore plastic ears like their hero...
...diagram sentences in the hope that the structure of language will sink in and provide a foundation. Others forget about structures and trust that reading literature will ensure, perhaps by osmosis, a better grasp of the language - although the definition of literature now has often descended from Shakespeare and Conrad to Woody Allen and Kurt Vonnegut...