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Despite Loeb's attacks, Muskie did expect help from Manchester, the state's largest city and a Democratic stronghold that accounted for 20% of the party's total vote last week. Muskie barely held his own, managing to eke past McGovern only by the scant margin of 511 votes. Nobody had to tell Muskie that breaking even in city wards is not the way a Democrat wins nominations, much less the presidency...
...Crimson fencers began and ended Saturday's match on shaky footing, but in between performed well enough to eke out a 14-13 decision over Princeton...
...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...
...Picasso's goddaughter, and Lucia's presence, quite obviously, put him in an expansive mood. Why, someone asked, do the peaceful doves for which he is so famous never have any feet? Because, said Picasso, his father, who was an impecunious art professor, used to eke out a living by taking painting commissions on the side. "Doves were his specialty, and when his sight began to fail, he would ask me to finish the pictures where special detail was needed-that was always the doves' feet. I painted so many doves' feet that all my doves...
Fourth Man. "Martina has never changed," remarks Met Coloratura Reri Grist, a longtime friend. "She is the same person whether she talks to royalty or the janitor." Perhaps that is because when she was a child in Harlem, her father sometimes had to eke out his income as a mechanical engineer by working as an apartment house superintendent. Her mother occasionally hired out as a domestic. Martina was bright enough to pass the entrance tests at a demanding but free special high school run by Manhattan's Hunter College. Later, she went through Hunter itself in three years, majoring...