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...wrenching disbelief. "We don't believe it . . ." "It just couldn't be." "They're holding him against his will." In Alden, Minn., the mother of Pfc. Richard Tenneson, 21, told reporters, "If I could talk to him for ten minutes, I could at least make a dent in that kind of thinking." Mr. & Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, the parents of Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, sat in stunned sadness in their home in Cracker's Neck, Va. like a study in American gothic. "I won't believe anything except that my boy wants to return home...
...hope not, Mijnheer,' says he. 'Will you have a lemon drop?' In this part of the world, everyone has a better air story when you start to tell yours. You begin to feel, rather unhappily, that you'll have to get killed to make any dent in the conversation...
...lower-bracket incomes because they form the majority of the population. But it would hardly "soak the poor," since food and housing and medical expenses, on which the lowest-income families spend as much as 65% of their earnings, would be exempt under all proposed plans. Instead, the biggest dent, dollarwise, would be made on those who have the most to spend on nonessentials. As for a pyramiding of the tax, Congress could easily prevent this by requiring retailers to leave out the tax when computing markups. The tax might restrict sales temporarily. But at the same time a deflationary...
...some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called in the contractor and fined him three times the amount of his claim for nonfulfillment of contract. For the big job of federal district governor, the Presi-'dent picked a veteran Alemánista, but built such a fire under him that the old wheelhorse leaped like an apocalyptic charger against price-gouging movie exhibitors, police-protected brothels and unsightly sidewalk peddlers, then went frantically to work repairing street drains in flood-plagued working-class districts...
...Payne Whitney Clinic (and others like it) can hardly make a dent in the ranks of the 350,000 U.S. citizens who are admitted each year to psychiatric hospitals. Yet the psychiatrists who staff such institutions are confident that in their progressive, imaginative approach to the treatment of patients they have part of the answer...