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...alive and kicky for 15 years -with Sunshine Boys, Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple and The Prisoner of Second Avenue-could not possibly survive in all that gossamer. He was too deep into Broadway to travel well. His brains would scramble in the sun. The sands of Malibu would jam his typewriter if tennis elbow did not strike him limp first. Simon told a reporter eight years ago that he "would rot" if he ever left New York. "I have to stay here; I'm a fish and I was born in a dirty pond and that...
...both Britons and Americans, produced not culture shock but culture swoon. The greenness and smallness of Britain captivated the Yanks, followed in short order by the beer, fish and chips, pubs, bikes and, of course, the dames. Their hosts were fascinated by Jeeps, all things in cans from jam to ham, jitterbugging, frozen steaks, cigars and the incredible generosity of G.I.'s - who were paid five times as much as a tommy. There was also the legend of Yankee sexual rapacity and capacity. "They're overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here," ran the familiar litany - to which...
...even Catholics who are liberal on marital and sexual issues can be adamant about abortion - at least for themselves and their families. "Abortion is murder to me," says Mary Ann Murphy, 54, of Alexandria, Va. "But I cannot jam my religious beliefs down someone else's throat." Jan Slevin, a nurse, refused to work in the obstetrics unit of Washington General Hospital because of the many abortions performed there. "In a case of incest, rape or some psychological trauma," she concedes, "I can see a morning-after pill or a shot to prevent pregnancy. But I think abortion...
...goals-defense and space, for example-but otherwise have built an economy that is preposterously inefficient and corrupt. Industrial plant directors bent upon fulfilling the Plan adulterate their products to increase quantity. Pills come out at half-strength. A canning engineer admits: "If we add less sugar to the jam, we can produce more canned goods and meet the Plan." Window panes are often made so thin that most are shattered before they can be installed in apartment complexes that begin losing bricks just after the tenants move in. (Jutting screens are sometimes installed above the first floor to catch...
...positive side, Leon Goetz had three hits (the team had 12), and Larry Brown, the third Crimson hurler, did work loose from a sixth-inning jam. If he hadn't, the Crusaders might have won by three touchdowns. So much for being patriotic...