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...wants to rent a cottage like hers, a solitary house by the sea. She offers him supper and a bed for the night. He accepts with apparent gratitude, but when she closes her bedroom door he goes gliding silently from room to room like a weasel on the lurk. The next morning, with many thanks for her hospitality, he leaves to catch a bus, but several hours later he is back. "Missed it," he says with an ingenuous smile. He stays another night, and on the third day, when they go swimming, he makes love to her in a meadow...
University policy is always complex. Ramifications lurk in the shadow of every act that looms in the pitiless sun of time. Concatenations foul the keel of the administration propelled by decision. Thus it is with no little circumspection that the University must approach the task presented it by 2250 insurgent undergraduates...
...perils that lurk in the big city are not all from muggers and mashers-as anyone knows who has listened to Manhattan's sirens incessantly ululating some emergency. In the past five weeks, for instance, New Yorkers and their guests have been taken unawares in some surprising ways...
...longer do so at the expense of existing sections, we are adding two news pages. For a long time we have been reporting more and more business news from abroad, as a prosperous Europe changes its tastes, markets and circumstances, and as new economic opportunities-and dangers-lurk or loom in Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America...
Starting last November, Cuban bulldozers have cleared a network of military access roads, which slope down from the surrounding hills (where Castro observation posts and gun emplacements lurk) right up to Gitmo's 24-mile fence. The mined roads lead 26 miles westward to the home base of a Castro armored pool of 51-ton Stalin tanks and 155-mm., 40-m.p.h. motorized artillery...