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...Newspapers chain. He covered the Patriot League, and most particularly the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless team in the history of the game, and later found to be infested with Communists. At the time that Smitty is writing from the Old Folks' Home, all of the above organizations are defunct -- treated as if they never existed, in fact -- and Word sets about reviving them in print...
...they exist, haunted by old loves, fears and hates. Until we learn that they are ghosts, it is assumed that they are merely mad-especially Elsa. She is sure that a shoe salesman in a Madison Avenue shop is really an SS man named Kiel, long defunct, with whom she had a brief liaison during the war at a British intelligence installation. Elsa's shadow falls the wrong way-always a bad sign-and she practices the kind of unpredictable tyranny that only a weak, formerly beautiful, unbalanced woman can. Elsa's husband Paul has an inner voice...
...William McCulloch, of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, gave Dean his first Government job as minority counsel for the committee. After two years, Dean became associate director of the National Commission on Reform of Criminal Laws, a panel to advise Congress and the President. Now defunct, the commission advocated the elimination of mandatory prison sentences and abolition of the death penalty, two positions that Dean's current boss opposes. A colleague on the commission says that Dean "was a very decent guy, but without a very solid base in principle...
...they" refers to the handful of known black militants on the island. The closest thing to a militant organization is the now defunct Black Beret Cadre, which flourished briefly with protests and a publication from 1968 to 1970. At least two former members of the cadre were being held this week in police custody...
Coveting no such distinction, General Motors chiefs temporarily canceled a $107 per-car price increase that had been pending before the now-defunct Price Commission. On the other hand. Alcoa decided to risk raising its prices on some products. Aluminum price rises have been expected because of a jump in demand, and the company apparently relied on that fact to shield it against federal displeasure...