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...money for fixes and getting into trouble. The cops hassle him. The neighborhood pusher cons him into running sinister little missions on his behalf and rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract the attention of some neighbors across the way. The police are called and cause...
...quality of character needed to perform the thing that I have in mind. I have completely repressed all emotion; have learned to see myself in perspective, in true relationship with other men and the world. I have completely arrested the susceptibility to...give credence to...shallow unnecessary things...that lock the mind and hinder thinking...
Acheson had his misgivings about Roosevelt. "It didn't flatter me," he later remarked, "to have the squire of Hyde Park come by and speak to me familiarly, as though I were a stable boy and I was supposed to pull my lock and say, 'Aye, aye, sir.' " That was no way for one squire to treat another. But in 1941 Acheson was invited to return to the Government-this time to the State Department. He remained for six years, then left to resume his law practice until he was appointed Secretary by Truman...
...through 1969-a total of about 5.6 million cars. The mounts consist of a layer of rubber bonded between two metal plates. When a mount gives, the engine can twist from its moorings while the car is moving. When this happens, it is possible that the gear shift will lock, the car accelerate wildly, and the brakes fail. There have been numerous crashes but no known fatalities; most drivers have remained cool enough to switch off the ignition and come to a stop. Toms' public warning advises owners to take their cars to dealers for a checkup...
...which ended with the arrest, imprisonment, or interrogations of dozens of us. During this time Elizabeth was under constant surveillance so that when I arrived in June, 1969, she told me that she was on the point of suicide, that she had made a vain attempt to change the lock on her door to keep the police from searching her apartment and tapping her telephone. It was clear that Brigitte's escape had closed the final avenues open to us to get married. We had to talk in whispers in her apartment about our future. I had warned Elizabeth against...