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Place to Be. For all of her new moxie, Pat stopped short of the front lines. Her schedule this time did not include any ghetto areas, and the only campus she visited belonged to the School of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo. But she was constantly surrounded by college students, because many of the institutions she visited were heavily staffed with young volunteers...
...something like "Director of Medical Programs" at the Mass. Red Cross. He explained that a good deal of discretion is left to the individual nurse, that there is no flat policy of refusing everyone who claims to have smoked, but that the nurse is instructed to be on the lookout for habitual drug types and, particularly, for anyone who might have used heroin, which, he pointed out, may be associated with hepatitis, which can be transmitted in the blood. He said that marijuana, like nicotine, did leave a residue in the blood for long periods of time and that...
...including the armored car and Adler robberies and thefts in which guests at French Quarter hotels lost $300,000 in jewels and furs. One of the bandits' advantages, of course, was that they were so well equipped. They evidently used a police traffic-survey helicopter as an overhead lookout to scout escape routes. A warning was flashed by walkie-talkie to the thieves on the ground if any honest cops approached...
...couple of minutes a ferry appeared and took us across. We continued on keeping a sharp lookout on the road for flocks of sheep. Finally, we arrived in Portr??, the capital of the Isle of Skye...
Author Shetzline, a onetime Forest Service lookout himself, has the gift of using sometimes lyrical, sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...