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Crows and bluejays have attacked the owl every morning since it arrived on Thursday, much to the dismay of residents in Lowell House...
...more exciting the secret in Israel, the faster it is leaked, as Henry Kissinger learned to his dismay and anger more than once in the course of his sessions with high-level Israeli leaders. Thus last week, even before the vote was formally announced at the most important Labor Party convention in the country's history, the outcome was already being whispered among close to 3,000 party delegates packed into Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium. Entering the hall to take his place among them and hear the announcement, Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 55, was greeted with knowing cries...
...firms holding the leases expressed dismay. Shell Oil charged that the delay "further jeopardizes the economic security of the nation." What happens next is unclear. The Interior Department can either appeal the ruling, possibly rewrite the impact statement, or call the deal off and return the money to the companies. Whatever it does, last week's decision is certain to delay production in the Atlantic for at least several years...
...East Germany. Once the most obedient of peoples in the Soviet bloc, the East Germans have begun to manifest discontent with life in the most prosperous and at the same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
...underscore the new factor of emotional involvement as opposed to simple animal passion, the usual scenes of sexual conquest are conspicuous only by their absence. The substitutes, however, are much better than the originals. The scene where Harry tells his partner, Inspector Moore (Tyne Daly), (much to his initial dismay) that "a guy could do a lot worse than having you for a partner" is a development in Harry's character of considerable dimensions. You can see it coming a mile away, but it is still a big event when it comes...