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...mayors or Governors have spent enough to head off imminent problems posed by outmoded mass transit and increasing pollution. Says Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I have yet to see a long-range state-local expenditure projection that did not underestimate spending requirements. Knock on any door marked MAYOR or GOVERNOR and you'll find a long line of pressing needs waiting to be dealt with...
...send their drivers to briefings and guided tours of the 54-mile waterway project. "They can be the greatest goodwill, or bad-will, ambassadors," explains the mayor. It remains to be demonstrated whether the indoctrinations will succeed in altering the seemingly irrepressible urge of a taxi driver to knock rather than boost...
...antics of his madcap fencers, there should be a lot of victories coming his way There are times, though, when you have to wonder what Vince Lombardi would have to say about the good-time philosophy that pervails among Edo's fencers. But I guess even Lombardi wouldn't knock success...
...vocabulary for what is happening around them. A building is not bombed; someone "puts the touch" to it. An army patrol becomes a "duck patrol" because the British soldiers, nervously fingering their weapons, walk the streets like sitting ducks. People who are murdered in their homes get "the midnight knock," while those killed in demonstrations are victims of "an aggro," meaning an aggravation. The conflict itself is called, with simple eloquence, "the troubles...
...rugged homestead country of Australia one evening in 1900, the wife of one of the area's white settlers answers a knock at her farmhouse door. Out of the darkness rushes the hired man, an aboriginal, flailing about with an ax. Moments later the farmer's wife, her two daughters and a schoolmistress-boarder lie hacked to death...