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During the pretrial investigation, the widow of the slain Chinese had told police that her husband knew Reynolds. But neither the prosecution nor the defense called her as a witness, nor made any attempt in court to explore the relationship, if any. The result was to lend credence to widely repeated rumors all over Taipei that the dead man and Ser geant Reynolds had some kind of connection, perhaps in black-market activities...
Critics have tried to proselytize Orwell's shade, I think, because there is not much else they can do with him. His work does not lend itself to criticism. His prose style is better read than read about; there are few meanings in his novels beyond what he consciously put there; and aware of his limitations, he seldom ventured beyond them...
...SMALL BUSINESS LOANS will be available for first time since Feb. 1, when Small Business Administration ran short of funds for everything except most urgent disaster borrowing. Congress has allocated $45 million in stopgap funds until new fiscal year begins July 1, and SB A is ready to lend $26 million to 475 small firms with backlogged applications...
...lunch and I had to go to the ladies' room and finally I got very disturbed. I decided I will forget I am a lady-supposed to be-and I said, 'Mr. Wojciechowski, if you are not going to let me out of here, you lend me your hat.' " Mr. Wojciechowski...
...Ambassador to Honduras, onetime Boston admiralty lawyer Whiting Willauer, 50, got a call for some strictly non-routine work. A twelve-year-old boy had drowned while swimming in a river pool near the capital city of Tegucigalpa, but the body could not be found. Would the Ambassador lend his skindiving equipment to help the search? "Whitey" Willauer gladly complied, but the borrowers did not understand how to use the equipment. The ambassador forthwith donned his own oxygen mask and tank, dived into the 40-ft. depths, found the boy's body and brought it to the surface. Explained...