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...tell the players without a scorecard in Virginia these days. Party labels, loyalties and leaders are scrambled beyond the worst imaginings of old Harry F. Byrd Sr., who for much of his life ran Virginia politics like a military drill...
Much of this drift can be laid to the relative disarray in the White House, which was formerly run with the highhanded authoritarianism of a Prussian drill field by the President's two top aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
Whatever the Rolling Stones had in mind, Gimme Shelter is the universal order of the rich to their tax lawyers. Nearly everyone is aware that some Texas oilmen regularly "drill away" their entire tax indebtedness by charging off the same amount as the cost of new drilling projects and at the same time keeping themselves comfortably afloat on the high tax savings allowed seekers of black gold. Less familiar is the fact that Christmas-tree growers successfully persuaded Congress to write a special provision into the tax law granting capital-gains benefits for their product after the IRS had ruled...
Sophomore Bart Vandissel won by forfeit at 191 lbs., and junior Robert Kristoff became the only junior to win all day, pinning sophomore Scott Drill in the heavyweight, and final, competition...
...drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...