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...feet bloodied, her hair blowing, Eliza jumped from ice floe to ice floe, not stopping until, "as in a dream," she had left Kentucky behind and found herself safe on the Ohio side of the Ohio River. Contrary to the myth ic and dramatic versions of folklore, Harriet Beecher Stowe's heroine was not actually pur sued by bloodhounds...
...other 68 troupers who had been perking up the troops in South Viet Nam were invited? By way of retaliation, snipped Merrick, "I cut the ambassador dead-left him a floating island of ice in his sea of protocol." Still, the ambassador did pretty well standing on his protocol floe. After Mary warbled through ditties from South Pacific, Lodge whooped into Minnie the Mermaid ("She forgot her morals down among the corals"). Later, the State Department reported that Merrick had made a slight mistake-it was Mary's husband, Richard Halliday, who had drawn up the guest list from...
...last week that progress toward change will be achieved by next spring, and that the talks will be widened to include the smaller IMF members outside the Ten. That estimate is optimistic, but even France's Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing admitted: "The ice floe on reform has at last broken. People are now ready to talk business." Perhaps it was symbolic that, in their off-hours Fowler and Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin played a brisk match of tennis against Giscard and his deputy, André de Lattre. Score...
...morning, we will have to ford a much more forbidding body of water--the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results directly from the inability of the Cambridge sewerage system to carry flood water into the Charles and the failure of Buildings and Grounds crews to keep Yard drains clear...
...bare stage beneath a jagged ice floe, a chorus of penguins sang a solemn farewell to the explorer, who had just lurched off into the Antarctic night. The audience was not sure what it was watching, but the composer had no doubts. Said Winfried Zillig: "It's pure opera...