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Standing Offer. George Higgins never got to college himself; he only managed to squeak through high school by working after class as a janitor and a soda jerk. After that he struck out for Detroit, became a star salesman for General Motors, finally earned enough money to buy a Ferndale agency of his own. Then, one day, a teacher from Lincoln High School happened to tell him about a "mighty deserving poor boy" who wanted to go to college. That night George Higgins decided that the boy should go, and that he should take the responsibility of paying the college...
...watch a "whole flotilla of bright, shiny balls moving rapidly in a northerly direction." Jet fighters scrambled from Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome. N.Y., but found nothing. ¶ Over the AEC's atomic laboratory at Los Alamos. N.M., observers watched a shiny and "apparently metallic" object jerk through the sky for 30 minutes at high speed. ¶ Off Korea, the crew of a Canadian destroyer spotted two "flying discs" that disappeared at dawn. By radar, the objects were fixed two miles high and seven miles away...
...jerk of the 120-ft. nylon rope brought Dave up short, painfully bruising and wrenching his ribs, and dragged Jim, ax and all, to within a foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...
...Atlanta, on his way to Mobile to take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...
...duke is an outrageous host. The wine they admire, he knows will not "travel." Wheedled out of him and carted home, it tastes like vinegar. The villa's glittering bathrooms are tiled with condescending instructions: "Press handle down, hold for one minute and release with a slight jerk." The ten-year-old footman has been taught to speed departing guests with the final salute: "You-goddamned-son-of-a-bitch...