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...with whom I used to spend the lonely hours between midnight and eight in the morning during summers in Daytona Beach, playing golf in the moonless nights by flashlight, seeing how many times we could go around a traffic circle without getting dizzy, riding on the top of the hood of my car down the beach with no driver (steering with our feet through the open sunroof, and a book on the accelerator pedal) or driving through the Tomoka swamp roads to watch the phosphorescence on the drooping Spanish moss. I was very curious to see him because rumor...
...opera composer." When Erich Wolfgang Korngold said that in 1942, the folks in Hollywood nodded sympathetically and went on enjoying his film music. After all, Korngold was a celebrated composer of movie scores who had won Academy Awards for Anthony Adverse (1936) and The Adventures of Robin Hood...
...Annamite chain to the west. Trucks piled high with baskets, furniture and clothes were packed with 50 and 60 people in the rear. An army deuce-and-a-half rolled by, claxon blaring, three dozen faces peering from the back and five more Vietnamese sitting on the hood. Three old Citroëns, looking like something out of an old French police thriller, glided silently by with no fewer than 20 Vietnamese inside. For the ride from Hué to Danang, these families had paid $45, up from the normal fare of $9. A three-wheel Lambretta taxi designed...
...worth a shattered skull. Owens, taking advantage of the calm, offers to go alone to be arrested. He cannot, "in good faith," let others, for whom he feels a responsibility, be arrested or injured. As he talks, two black physicians attend a young man slumped on a car's hood on the far corner. Peter Pogorski is calm and glum and will be taken to the hospital for X-rays and stitches...
Ford's economic package should not fool many. It is a give-to-the-rich, take-from-the-poor, Robin Hood-in-reverse type of a scheme. Once again, Ford's better idea has been low on performance and high on p.r. But at a time like this--when the nation can ill afford frivolous items of any sort--we truly cannot afford solutions based on ready smiles, simple panaceas and WIN buttons. We need statesmanship, not showmanship...