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...they were stuck in a hole somewhere, there's no way they could ever make it," says Barbara Fagone, who has been teaching handicapped children in her regular class for three years. How do her normal students react? "We found out last year that they're curious for exactly 20 minutes. Then it's over...
...tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers a glancing insight into a curious phenomenon of our time, namely, when the law's remedies for injustice fail, celebrity can be a powerful defense for the few individuals lucky enough to command...
...senior White House energy expert puts it: "The new department is a curious kind of hybrid." Among other things, it inherits the entire Federal Energy Administration, the Federal Power Commission, the Energy Research and Development Administration and some 50 functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably...
Because the debates among IMF members are necessarily secret, a strange mystique has settled around the Fund. The curious personality of Witteveen-part hard-nosed banker, part mystic (see box) -has only added to the organization's enigmatic reputation. The mystique is undeserved, since the delegates are as subject to emotion and nationalistic impulses as any businessman or politician...
...names of four generations ago. But the strange, in this case, was stranger yet, and came in waves: the Secret Service men with their crackling radios, and the communications technicians and the White House advance people, and then the TV people and newspaper and magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets...