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Mary Mac & Mary Bill. Bundy routinely works twelve-hour days. He rises at 7:15 or so each morning in his home in Washington's Spring Valley section, bolts his four-minute eggs and coffee, scans the morning papers and chats with Mary (known as "Mary Mac" to distinguish her from another Mrs. Bundy, "Mary Bill"). Occasionally he drops three of his sons off at Washington's St. Albans School; the fourth son entered Groton last year...
Almost Indistinguishable. Mills noted that "it sometimes is suggested that the present selective excise taxes are justified on the grounds that they are imposed on the sale of luxuries as contrasted with necessities. But in our society today it has become almost impossible to distinguish between luxuries and necessities...
Wearing their caps backwards to distinguish themselves from the rebels, Imbert's troops proceeded to batter the rebels in a full-scale battle. Clanking through the narrow streets, loyalist tanks fired point-blank into every house suspected of harboring rebels. So vicious was the fighting that a hapless taxi driver who got out to fix a flat was gunned down and lay there a day because no one dared venture into the street. Rebels trying to escape through the rat-infested sewers were flushed out with tear...
...distinguish themselves from the Beatles, Britain's Rolling Stones have attempted to assume the image of Angry Young Men. "The Stones," their manager proudly explains, "are the group that parents love to hate." They sing Mersey-Mississippi rhythm and blues, backed by a quavering guitar and a chugging harmonica that smacks of cotton-pickin' time down South. With a kind of goggle-eyed conviction. Lead...
...radarscope of a U.S. warship, the coastline and the fishing fleet blend into a single, miasmic blur, and no technique other than close search has yet been devised to distinguish Communist from honest fisherman...