Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPECIAL SERVICES by John Gardner Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 298 pages...
...leaders are out of fashion today. They are either incompetent or too smart. The few who aren't too weak are too strong. We have a national attitude of ambivalence and skepticism. We're for a sense of purpose, but against any particular direction. I like John Gardner's story of the wife who read the fortune-telling card her husband got from a penny weighing machine. 'You are a leader,' she read, 'with a magnetic personality and strong character-intelligent, witty and attractive to the opposite sex.' Then she turned the card...
Despite last week's shock, longtime residents of Parachute retained a dogged optimism. They hope that a Union Oil Co. shale project in the area will stay on track and doubt that they have seen the last of Exxon. Said Cecil Gardner, 54, a Parachute native who operates the town's Conoco gas station: "There'll be a boom again. You just wait till gasoline goes up a few more cents a gallon. Oh hell yes, they'll be back." Local people still hope that Parachute and Battlement Mesa will not become ghost towns like Silver...
Midnight in the big bad city. Down by the docks the mood was as warm and moist and treacherous as Ava Gardner's parted lips, and the moonless sky was swarming with metaphors. I was prowling those mean streets, not looking for trouble. It knew where to find...
...campaign, which has already attracted $300,000, will need $1 million before the November confrontation. Page Gardner, the campaign's financial director, said. They expected roughly $7000 from this event...