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...shippers and more jobs for U.S. seamen, but, economists estimate, it could cost the nation an additional $300 million for foreign oil. Because of higher transportation costs, the big petroleum companies would have to pay more for Arabian crude and charge more for gasoline at the pump. Hence the curious coalition between giants of the industry and consumer advocates in lobbying against the bill...
...Weak, vain, pushing, curious, garrulous" - as Macaulay described him-Boswell nevertheless produced the most vivid and exhaustive biographical portrait in literature. Modern biographers have before them a daunting monument, the quotable Johnson of old age, living in picturesque squalor, holding forth on any topic. He was "the greatest talker in the history of the English language," Bate claims. And how simple it would have been just to elaborate on that legend: the proud writer dining behind a screen because he was ashamed of his tattered clothes; the compulsive walker in the streets of London who had to touch each lamppost...
Jeanette Williams, 73, a San Francisco housewife, used to see her doctor every week to make sure she was winning her battle against hypertension, or high blood pressure. Now she merely stops by a shopping center near her home, where she consults a curious-looking machine that resembles an armrest-equipped chair in a college lecture hall. Taking a seat, Mrs. Williams rolls up her sleeve, puts her arm into a vinyl cuff, deposits 50? in the slot and pushes a button. On the console in front of her, the words light up, TESTING-REMAIN STILL. The vinyl cuff tightens...
...references to me in your story stand as a rather remarkable exhibition of abysmal ignorance, irresponsibility and a curious desire to insult. That the author would want to expose this lamentable combination of traits is quite sad. Eleanor C. Marshall Assistant to the Assistant Dean of the College...
Bolivia was a curious place for Ernesto Guevara to end up. The son of upper-class Argentine parents who encouraged him in his medical studies, a strikingly handsome young man who suffered all his life from acute attacks of asthma, by all rights he should have ended his life a wealthy doctor ensconced in Buenos Aires, idly composing poetry in his spare time, leading a reflective, unremarkable life. Instead, eight years after he and Fidel Castro had taken Cuba, he would write to his parents...