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...went back to his Alexandria home to pick up his shoe trees. A graduate of the Nixon School of Imperial Protocol was aghast because American Presidents are not supposed to indulge in such menial tasks. Fortunately Ford has not as yet found out that he is completely above the humdrum routines of daily existence...
...bitter and protracted strike by National Football League players. Until last week, when the walkout halted for a 14-day "cooling off' period and striking veterans began reporting to training camp, the established league's exhibition season had been a disaster with rookies and free agents playing humdrum football in half-empty stadiums. Even if the strike is settled soon, the rancor between owners and strikers-not to mention bad blood between strikers and veterans who crossed picket lines-promises to linger through the season ahead...
...humdrum scene at the end, he testifies to the Knapp Commission that there are plenty of honest cops, men like him who would like to come forward, but can't because of the atmosphere of fear and violence. "Atmosphere" again...
Deposed as king in 1967, Patrick Olimi, 28, does not have time to be nostalgic about the old days in Toro, his former kingdom in western Uganda. He has settled in neighboring Kenya and started a career in advertising. But the rigors of monarchy hardly prepared him for a humdrum existence; so when he was offered the role of stand-in for Sidney Poitier in a movie, The Wilby Conspiracy, filmed in Nairobi and Nanyuki, he took a leave of absence from his company. Patrick emphasized it was only a lark. "I jumped at the offer as something...
...which the Gum nebula lies does not look remarkable to the naked eye. Nonetheless, it has long been called Lakha Manta (The Gateway to Hell) by the Indians, for reasons they are unable to explain. More tantalizing still, Michanowsky found that among some lowland tribes this humdrum part of the sky is known as the Region of the Chase of the Celestial Ostrich, a bird revered in Indian mythology. According to Indian lore, the ostrich was driven across the sky by two voracious dogs and finally killed in the constellation Vela. Michanowsky also learned of some possible connections between Indian...