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...birth to many sons and the common people could set up tents where they damn well pleased in the limitless domains of Big Mama because the only one who could oppose them had begun to rot beneath a lead plinth. The only thing left then was for someone to lean a stool against a doorway to tell this story, lesson and example for future generations, so that not one of the world's disbelievers would be left who did not know the story of Big Mama because tomorrow, Wednesday, the garbage men will come and will sweep up the garbage...
...counts the Hearst family among his clients, believes that "the joint tax committee was, if anything, a little easy on President Nixon. Everyone looks for every reasonable deduction and there are gray areas, but an official holding office should not take chances in the gray areas. He should lean over backward to be scrupulous, rather than lean forward to squeeze it the way Nixon...
Republicans, hungry from the lean years, criticize his appointments of Democrats to some key agencies. Democrats complain that he has isolated himself from the legislature. The Governor, however, remains unperturbed, banking on his ability to satisfy both parties in the tradition of Missouri Compromise...
...stone church of St. Michel in the tiny French village of Rodlinghem is full this Sunday morning. A strapping, red-bearded farmer named Gilbert, 22, leads the choir and congregation in the first hymn. As the notes die, 28-year-old Jean-Paul, a wiry, lean-faced legal clerk standing at the sanctuary lectern, launches into a short homily on the meaning of Lent, likening the penitential season to an automobile overhaul. After more songs and the reading of the Gospel, Pierre, 66, a sturdy, gray-haired retired farmer, leaves his pew and walks to the tabernacle. There he removes...
...strips for otherworldly visitors. A huge, cliffside trident, overlooking the nearby Bay of Pisco, may even have pointed the way to them, he says. But most scholars, including Reiche, flatly reject that farfetched idea; for one thing, no extraterrestrial artifacts have ever been found at the site. Scientific observers lean to a more down-to-earth explanation first proposed by the late archaeologist Paul Kosok of Long Island University, who found the drawings in 1939 while looking for ancient irrigation systems...