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...over the world," says M.P. and former Parliamentary Private Secretary William Molloy. "At some point," speculated another colleague, "he may have crossed somebody's path and they did him in." That possibility gained credence when Miami police found traces of blood and hair, along with a recent imprint of a body, inside a 300-lb. "concrete overcoat" of the type used by the Mafia for burials at sea. Unfortunately for investigators, the body inside the casement was missing, and the Florida police declared that there was as yet no reason to connect the two cases. One other puzzling fact...
Weingarten said he will ask local bicycle dealers to keep a log of serial numbers on new bikes sold. The Bicycle Workshop will also imprint free of charge serial numbers on bicycles for owners who can present proof of purchase, he said...
...dominant emotion at Harvard and it knows no distinctions of sex. In fact, failure is especially inadmissable for women, who should have an interest in dispelling the belief that Radcliffe women go on to become only well-educated housewives. Radcliffe women have reportedly left less of an imprint on the public arena than Vassar or Wellesley graduates, but this should not condone the cultural and political lag that characterizes Harvard attitudes...
Since Ford will not be operating with the burdens of Watergate upon his shoulder, he will surely take the natural course of all previous presidents and set out to make his own imprint upon the nation's foreign policy. If nothing else, this means a switch from Kissinger carrying out Kissinger's policy to Kissinger carrying out Ford's. This change will mean little if Ford relies as heavily upon Kissinger as Nixon did. However, there are several compelling reasons to believe that Ford's foreign policy will be formulated from a much wider base than the Nixon-Kissinger axis...
...Each of its 40 short chapters contains a quiet surprise or nuance that is all the more effective be cause it springs from the most familiar sources. Author Wolitzer, a Long Island housewife and mother of two, practices realism at its best. Her novel is not a direct imprint of close personal experience. It is an imaginative act that contemplates the world without the lachrymose bitterness that made an anxious Hemingway demean life by calling death an old whore...