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Everything, however, is not riotous and gay; there are odd little corners where things are pretty chilly-- little interludes which one comes upon in surprise, where there is not even a pretense to comedy. The gynecologist's daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful...
...Fifteen Congressmen and two staff members of the House Public Works Committee stayed at a Manhattan hotel on a summer weekend to check up on "Long Island beach erosion." Several congressional wives accompanied them. A neat square of ink blotted out the "Mrs." on the hotel bills that were submitted for payment. Members of the same committee, accompanied by a few wives, appeared in Manhattan again to stay at the fashionable Plaza to "study" New York's harbor and thruway...
...time when mergers are all the talk, the New York Central Railroad has often ended up talking to itself. Fifteen months ago, the Central broke off merger talks with the Pennsylvania, the biggest U.S. railroad, after palavering for 14 months without agreement. Fortnight ago, after the Central had discussed merger for some months with the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio Rail roads, the C. & 0. and the B. & O. an nounced that they plan to merge into the nation's second biggest line-and did not even mention the Central. Last week, with the prim-lipped hurt...
...with his nerve ends jumping like a field of grasshoppers, Blaydon flees home to England, to await the next volume of his saga. In parting from his friend-enemy, Groarke, Blaydon says accusingly: "You are Ireland, the same the English have been running their heads into for the past fifteen hundred years." Groarke answers: "No. I'm not like Ireland, I'm like life...
...Fifteen minutes later a U.S. Navy helicopter arrived, disgorged a squad of Americans in civilian clothes. For the first time the pilot opened his canopy, called, "I'm O.K.," and climbed out. The Japanese noted that he carried a pistol at his waist, that his flight suit bore no markings. Moments later more U.S. civilians arrived, drew pistols and ordered the Japanese away from the plane. But not before Eiichiro Sekigawa, editor of Tokyo's Air Views, got a meticulous description...