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...that it happens very often. "Take one with you, Jim!" someone shouts, and the big man rises and knocks one back in one gulp. "I just did," he says, and leaves his admirers gaping. James Dickey is everyone's notion of a poet: part Proteus, part Puck. People marvel at how much liquor he can hold, but he wonders why he can't drink as much as Hart Crane. Others are awestruck that he writes poems, criticism and fiction. He frets that he cannot paint...
...marvel is that a project of this magnitude could be accomplished at all by a metropolitan region of so many communities and separate governmental entities. Yet our transit cars are now in production, and we are due to start initial passenger service next year. The entire transit system will be completed in mid-1972, only a year behind the original schedule...
...Schnorr, Steve Monsulik, and Rick Battle dropped close decisions in the lightweights to give Hofstra the early lead. Lee continued to marvel at Monsulik's performance. "He's just done an amazing job for a beginner." he said. "That guy would have pinned him a month...
...then as you're standing there shaking the snow off your second step into the all-new Western Front, you begin to marvel at the fantastic new decor they've got going at this place, and you decide that the Western Front is just something else...
When the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opened in 1964, it was widely described as an engineering marvel and a surefire tourist attraction. Its 17½ miles of open spans and underwater tunnels connect Virginia's Cape Charles with the Norfolk area, uncorking what had been a major traffic bottleneck between New York and Florida. The 25-minute scenic crossing costs $4 for car and driver, plus 85? for each passenger-just pennies more than the old 90-minute ferry fare of $3.85 for car and driver. Yet traffic on the world's longest bridge-tunnel has been only...