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...sergeant, Cline had dropped out of high school in Sunnymead, Calif. He was placed in a home for juvenile delinquents when, his father said, "I was overseas, and the wife couldn't handle him." Cline was under psychiatric care in California from 1973 to 1975, then began to drift across the U.S. He worked for a time as a busboy at the MGM Grand Hotel but is not thought to have set the fire there that killed 84 people last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires-at the Royal Americana...
Others said the shared junior posts would reduce junior faculty commitment to the Social Studies program. Richard M. Hunt, the program's acting chairman, predicted junior members' "centers of gravity" might drift toward the department where tenure opportunities exist...
When I get back there's this boohoo sprawled across my seat. He is recklessly drunk. I am scared. I am filled with loathing. I go to my seat and he gets my drift and moves over. "Relax, man," he says. I hate him, I am filled with loathing. I want to go home, where my room is warm and my sheets are clean. I hate the pressure of his leg against mine. I am filled with loathing. He is screaming in a Latin accent...
...Grand Hotel. The stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore. Now those were names to conjure with, but others were around. Winston Churchill, bad boy of British politics, had just put out a book titled Amid These Storms about the unhappy drift of the democracies. Adolf Hitler was in the vestibules of German power and would pre-empt the inner sanctum come January of the next year. Joseph Stalin had the Soviet state in the palm of his hand. In sum, all the leaders who would contrive the shape of the midcentury world were...
...Bunky Sheppard tells it now, and he was riding in his car past the corner of 58th and South Park in Chicago. He passed a group singing a cappella, letting some high sweet harmonies drift up into the metropolitan air. Bunky drove around the block, came back to that same corner, listened a little harder and made his move...