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...movement, the Catholic Church, the Mafia. Though developed, as a great many of Sheed's essays are today, from book reviews (the last piece is an exception), Three Mobs is not your ordinary journalistic wrapup, to say the least. Readers who are dying to know the number of dock strikes in 1962, or finger an organization chart of the Mafia hierarchy, or check back on the minutes of Vatican II will not find The Facts here. To read Sheed is, rather, to invite caricatures by David Levine to dance in your head...
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Despite these impressive showings, Radcliffe suffered from a long spell in dry dock--Mount Holyoke has been swimming competitively all fall, while this was Radcliffe's first competitive dip of the year...
...have breathed, whether it must have been removed alive from the womb, whether it must have been over 24 weeks old, or whether it must have shown only a potential for life before it "died." The prosecutor has blithely left all these questions for Edelin to contemplate in the dock. The doctor has not been sufficiently clearly informed of the charge against...
...through 16 identical broken picture windows. The wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat disappear while heads and torsos are still visible. From across the river you are left with the impression of groups of Indians skateboarding along at top speed behind the sandbars, motionless from the waist...