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...strange and peculiar thoughts. Trying to be casual, I would then light a match, which is normal procedure before my daily conversation with God. After completing the quiz, I would leave the room (carefully using my new handkerchief on the doorknob) and hurry home to repair the door latch...
...CORNEILLE (full name: Corneille Guillaume Beverloo), 42, was born in Belgium of Dutch parents. His splats and spatters of color mash nature out flat like culture-smear samples sandwiched between giant microscope slides. "I always need to latch onto exterior reality," he says, "but I don't do any preliminary work. It's like jazz taking a theme: the rest is spontaneous, emotional creation...
Died. Francisco San Tiago Dantas, 52, one of the leftist powers behind Brazil's recently deposed President Joao Goulart, a wealthy corporation lawyer who started out as a conservative but later veered left to latch onto Goulart's rising star, as his Foreign Minister in 1962 authored Brazil's hands-off policy on Castro, as his Finance Minister in 1963 worked the other side of the street by promising economic reforms in return for a U.S. loan, in 1964 was about to be blacklisted by the anti-Communist purgers when they relented because he was so gravely...
...embassy. The U.S. flew them to West Germany to avoid getting the Japanese in trouble with the Russians, and the two cats probably will reach the U.S. soon. After all, as one U.S. official in Washington explained: "These guys aren't political. All they want is to latch onto some combo in New York...
...impressive than such figures indicate. For one thing, while it is easy enough to write in a candidate's name on a paper ballot, which almost all of New Hampshire uses, it is fairly tricky to register a write-in on a voting machine. This requires turning a latch, which releases a lock, which frees a slide, which opens to permit space for the write-in. Yet in Portsmouth (pop. 27,500), the only...