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...known that the campaign check-off was fine with him. It looked as if the President would have to accept the financing amendment he did not want along with his tax bill-or veto both. He threatened repeatedly to do just that, putting his design for economic recovery in hazard so as to deny the Democrats their campaign money...
...Decay. Up to a point, Bacon's art, in all its hazard and abiding strangeness, grows out of the terms of his life. Born in Ireland in 1909, a descendant of the great Elizabethan Sir Francis Bacon, he spent a childhood whose ambience was decayed status, country eccentricity and the violence of Irish civil war. When Francis was 17, his father caught him trying on his mother's underwear, and banished him from the house. With no special qualifications or ambition, Bacon drifted his way round Europe-to Berlin and afterward to Paris-and worked as an interior...
...Clark and Cowlitz county sheriff's departments, set up a command post and fanned out through a thickly timbered corridor 15 miles long and ten miles wide near the towns of Longview and Ariel in southwest Washington. The area is densely forested enough to present a serious hazard to the jumper if he did not make the clearing. Said Undersheriff Tom McDowell: "We're either looking for a parachute or a hole in the ground...
...your article "Occupational Hazard" [Nov. 1] you referred to the story The Emperor's New Clothes and claimed it was first described by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837. This is entirely incorrect. From our current study of Spanish literature, we know that the idea for The Emperor's New Clothes was first conceived by Don Juan Manuel, who lived from...
...averaging 3,700 Ibs., to 6.4% in domestic compact cars averaging 2,800 Ibs. and to 9.6% in foreign compacts averaging 1,900 Ibs.*Haddon predicts that insurance companies will carefully consider higher charges for policies on small cars and their riders, in order to reflect the greater safety hazard...