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The county judge-executive wields substantial power, controlling most state and federal and tax money that enters the county. Many county residents charge that past incumbents have completely sold-out to the coal companies. One community activist recalls a former judge-executive's interactions with a large mining company: "They...
"I don't know whether we're just fishing or not." Harvard Police Chief Saul L. Chafin said as the five-month search for Joan Webster entered a new phase. By the end of the week, police had dragged in vain both Walden Pond and a lake in Beverly.
Brezhnev was clearly fishing for some hint of American acquiescence in a Soviet pre-emptive attack. I gave no encouragement; my bland response was that the growth of China was one of those problems that underlined the importance of settling disputes peacefully. Brezhnev returned to his preoccupation. China's...
The rest is all more of what Cheever has done well for years. His Sentences remain gently illuminated gems of language, uncomplicated by any wordplay and unfailingly rhythmic. He controls the pace masterfully, whether guiding the action over a cascade of toxic wastes or through a freshet of afternoon passion...
Jaruzelski saved his rhetorical punches for a target that both wings of the party could unite in vilifying: the U.S., which he accused of waging a "propaganda and economic war" against his country. He charged that "psychological warfare services," presumably meaning Radio Free Europe, originated the widespread resistance slogan, "The...