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...Disregarding for the moment pur terrible terrestrial predicament, what is needed in the air are small vertical or short takeoff aircraft operating with a minimum of fuss, short loading times, and flying only when and where demanded. The next installment fashioned by our current political incompetents is the ultimate mumbo jumbo of aviation-the bloody, ear-splitting SST. We have been to the moon and demonstrated some kind of "supremacy"; why not call it quits...
...been reported. Chlormadinone, the "one-every-day" birth control pill, was on general-prescription sale in Britain, France and Mexico and was being widely tested in the U.S. Then a few beagle bitches being dosed with abnormally large quantities of chlormadinone developed nodules near their nipples. In the resulting fuss, further distribution of the contraceptive was halted in the U.S. Now the feeling is growing among many researchers that the recall of chlormadinone pills-like the banning of cyclamates-was a hasty and precipitous action that was based on insufficient and possibly misleading evidence...
...book is a novel about the Mafia, and, when Coop shoppers asked Breslin discreet questions about that organization, he couldn't see what all the fuss was about. "Hell, when it comes to larceny, I'm betting on the businessman," he said. "The Mafia-they're tough guys-but they're only trying to steal as much as the Protestant bankers do. And they don't succeed. In their wildest dreams, they didn't think of stealing as much as Wolfson could...
...best way to describe it is to say we all got overwrought about it." Helmer explained. "We've managed to resolve the matter satisfactorily without too much fuss. It wasn't malicious, and it wasn't insane." he said. "It won't happen again...
...Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants or trees: Maddy Beecher, Oliver Plane, Ivy Bowles, Lief Lund. John Plante, Cassia Meaning. Or is Cassia Meaning a pun on catch ya meaning? The word plays are both frivolous and serious, representing "the mind's fierce fuss, forever discontinuous...