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...letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...
This week the first U.S.-built LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessel is scheduled to dock near Philadelphia, completing a maiden voyage to the Mediterranean. Officers of Prudential-Grace Lines note that the Lash Italia 's round trip is taking only 34 days, compared with the normal 54 for a conventional carrier. By saving that much time-and, consequently, a good deal of money -U.S. shipowners expect to overcome their cost handicap...
...center of the hall. He asserted that it was the right of any person to defend himself or herself from violence, including the violence of the state, and took what was apparently a draft card from his wallet. Then, standing high on a chair, he brought a cigarette lighter to the card...
...have been starving for real action. Killed off by the overexposure of boxing on TV in the 1950s, the small fight clubs once so vital to the development of new talent are sorely missed. Of the ten professional world titleholders, only three are Americans; increasingly, championship fights in the lighter ranks of boxing take place before crowds in Rome or Bangkok or Mexico City, rather than in the Garden or the Miami Beach Convention Hall. Even among the heavyweights?a division that remains pretty much an American province?the really good fighters are too few and too colorless...
...pace you keep is almost, but not quite, lethargic. Your palms rest on his shoulders, his ankles, behind his knees; then his hands do the same at the junctures of your body. You begin to feel lighter and suppler, as if you have just had a backrub or a very hot bath. But you are never passive; the forces and concentration of your breathing calm your fears. Some moments your mind is at rest like a field in summer; other moments harsh memories lodge in the kinks of your muscles. How when you were eight, you made your mother...