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...were impatiently demanding passage back to Essex. But the Losers had also gotten the bus driver drunk and so, when Mr. Loser boarded the boat for another swing around the harbor, Mrs. Loser led the bus driver off to the nearby sand dunes, leaving one of the chauffeurs to entertain her half-stewed teenage daughter. Meanwhile, the rest of the group suffered in the sun, as unsilently as possible, while back at the Country Club they began to serve up the evening's promised lobster...
...insist that he is compelled to pursue a tough course because of pressure from Moscow and is only waiting until after the 14th Congress to institute improvements. That may well be wishful thinking. Last month, at the Slovak Communist Party's Congress in Bratislava, he said: "Various reformers entertain the hope that there will be a more liberal period after the Party Congress. If they mean freedom for bourgeois tendencies, for laying the foundations for a new disruption, they should not entertain any illusions." He has also denounced Communist "radishes," meaning party members who are red outside but white...
...form of the proposal may have been preposterous, but in fact a more democratic perspective might be restored if government at the lowest levels throughout the U.S.-city and county councils, for example-would entertain similar proposals, taking votes on exactly what they wanted done about the war. It is strange that the basic units of democracy, habitually thinking small, worry only about sewers and sidewalks instead of occasionally debating the fate of their sons...
...devours some 70,000 gallons of desalinated sea water, went into full production last week. Eighteen varieties of fruit and vegetable were planted, including cabbages, watermelons, turnips, lettuce, tomatoes and squash.Sheik Zaid confident that there will soon be enough home-grown produce to satisfy his domestic market, can now entertain the notion of exporting fresh Abu Dhabian vegetables to his neighbors...
...even further, with floors of one room becoming sofas (also tables, chairs and beds) for another. "You can sit on the edge of the drawing room and dangle your feet into the studio," says Kappe. "There are so many places for people to sit or sprawl that we can entertain a hundred and still retain intimacy...