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...National Council for Civil Liberties (N.C.C.L.), and Lennon left with what seemed at the time to be characteristic barroom bravado. Says Melly: "He told me that if I read in the papers that he had been found face down in a puddle, or maybe it was a ditch, I would know he was speaking the truth...
...amateur scientist, who tramped the route, figured out the financing, and after years of evangelical effort persuaded a skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million construction cost in less than ten years...
Virginia Jones, a UFW organizer, told the ralliers to remember 19 farmworkers she said were recently killed when an unsafe company bus drove into an irrigation ditch...
...home of British Prime Ministers.* The country's electoral drama, the most suspenseful in memory, had begun four days before when British voters failed to give either Wilson's Labor Party or Prime Minister Edward Heath's incumbent Tories a majority in Parliament. In a last-ditch effort to stay in power, Heath tried to lure the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) into a coalition government. But that proposal was essentially an exercise in wishful thinking on Heath's part. It quickly became clear that the Liberals had no intention of trading in their first...
...shipped through the Suez on tankers. Moreover, some oil company officials claim that the cheapest way of all to transport oil is in supertankers too big to run the canal. Even so, a third of the world's tanker tonnage can still fit through the Big Ditch, and for those vessels the sailing time between Persian Gulf ports and Western Europe could be cut to about 14 days from the present 30 days around the Cape of Good Hope. In addition, traders as far away as India and Pakistan would reap immediate shipping benefits from the canal...