Word: dropout
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...your dropout style...
...position as the man to beat, but he is not invincible. If Kennedy can hang onto his campaign sled in the snows of Maine and New Hampshire, events might turn his way. A two-man Democratic race might be an advantage to the party at this stage. A Kennedy dropout would leave a single target for Republican snipers. But Kennedy has not quit, and his staff remains focussed on the domestic issues that will rise to the fore with a break on the international scene. As they say in politics, it ain't over yet. Hang on to your convention...
...when, with the aid of his father, a former FBI agent, he was hired by TRW, a conglomerate that, among other things, makes surveillance satellites for the CIA. A communications clerk, Boyce soon got "top secret" and "crypto" clearances that allowed him to handle highly classified documents. The college dropout found himself assigned to a sensitive job: transmitting coded spy information from the TRW installation in Redondo Beach, Calif., to CIA headquarters in Langley...
Most cultures think of the limerent as a bit crazy, but you're in good company, Ralph. Stendhal, Héloïse and Henry VIII were limerent. Lord Byron is the best-known dropout from limerence; after the Sturm und Drang with Lady Caroline Lamb, he simmered down. Something worth thinking about, Ralph...
...stoned bum-bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not art. Why, for instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair of the snowman and the spy who called himself Falcon was an episode that demonstrated amazing ineptitude on the part...