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...haircut. Describing a female jazz pianist for whom he briefly led the life of a "prole-bohemian," he said, "I think she was basically interested in me as a Yale grad student. Love should be devoid of status factors, but of course it never is. Yes." The experience of manual labor left him with the conviction that there is no wisdom in the common man. He has never voted, and thinks politics are a matter of "parcelling out road contracts...
...biggest plurality in the state's history. Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy lined up behind Democrat Abe Beanie in New York City-yet in Lindsay's shadow their en comiums sounded as if they had come from the party manual. "Look at Hubert Humphrey," chortled House Republican Leader Gerry Ford. "He campaigned in three places-in New York, in Philadelphia and in Ohio. His batting average was zero. Even the Twins won three out of seven...
...flames on the west side of the building become more intense and burn in adjacent suites 601 and 603. Firemen place two hoses through fifth-floor bedroom windows on the south wall, and a third through an east-side window. Firemen place manual extension ladders along the west wall and against the library...
Scarcely four months ago, on the eve of the monsoons, the Viet Cong scented victory as well as rain in the air. They had successfully moved from Phase 1 (political agitation) in the Red guerrilla manual of arms to Phase 2 (terrorism and small-unit battles). Hoping the monsoons would give them haven, they readied Phase 3: all-out battalion and regiment-size assaults on the frayed and battle-weary South Vietnamese army...
Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...