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...would definitely be "double mint, double good, double last," in the 1974 campaign. True, Chicago did junk that disgruntled pair of Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins on Unfortunate American League chumps. But the Cubs failed to capitalize on their close-out sale and will be knocking on the Phillies' dungeon door all season long...
Bizarre Luxury. Even foreigners in the C.A.R. live a somewhat precarious existence. An Agence France-Presse reporter, who filed a critical story from Bangui about Bokassa's rule, was arrested, stripped and dumped in a dungeon before being expelled; dozens of others have been ordered out of the country on 24 hours' notice for criticizing the President or otherwise incurring his disapproval. Diplomats too have difficulties, including even the French, despite Bokassa's often proclaimed Francophilism and France's $5 million a year in budgetary aid. There have been five French ambassadors in Bokassa...
...students. "Go into the cell, and I'll close the door, and you pretend you have to stay in there alone, 24 hours a day." After five minutes, the kids emerge, solemn-faced and committed to lives of virtue. Next, Sara points down ten stone steps to the "dungeon of Alcatraz." That was where the prison authorities would try to break a man, she explains, "when he was still able to say, 'I am me.' His hands were manacled to the walls, there was a lot of putrid water on the floor and lots of rats...
...last time I went home to Maine, I happened to pass by my old high school, Kennebunk High. KHS is a dungeon-like turn of the century building in which 650 students get a claustrophobic secondary education in stagnant, highschool-green classrooms of World War Two vintage. KHS was originally designed to hold approximately 450 students, and for the last 15 years has handily superceded that maximum figure...
Reflecting the deep distrust that Arabs once felt for banks, the Sheik of Abu Dhabi ten years ago stashed his oil money in the dungeon of his palace, where he could keep an eye on it-even though rats kept nibbling away at his profits. Now the rich gush of oil cash into Abu Dhabi and such other Arab states as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya has forced a change of attitude...