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...fight somebody. He couldn't sue the commission. It already had gone out of business. He picked out this one paragraph and said, 'This is the way to attack the Kahan commission . . . and that's the way I'm going to wash my hands clean of this terrible, terrible mess...
...Good," said the student, and he ran over to the huge pile of exams on the front desk, threw his blue-book into the middle of the mess, and dashed out of the room...
Prison officials charged with carrying out executions tend to be ready but hardly eager for the new era. "I'm at peace with myself," says Missouri Warden William Armontrout. "But I wouldn't want to sit here and do a whole mess of these things." He recently had the state's gas chamber repainted, and ordered a fresh stock of cyanide pellets. Armontrout stays friendly with his 28 death-row inmates, even though he may personally execute some of them soon. "I want the fellas to know I do care about them." By contrast, in neighboring Kentucky...
...would have shown promise: to blend the early talkies' two most popular genres, the gangster film and the musical, into a sort of Public Enemy Goes to 42nd Street or, modernized, The Godfather Gets One from the Heart. Why, then, is The Cotton Club such a frigid, juiceless mess...
...businesses fear that branches of big chains will take local savings deposits but not lend them back to firms in the community. "In rural Minnesota, many banks lend money on a handshake," says Daryl Erdman, the Minnesota supermarket owner. "Even if a guy's financial statement is a mess, the banker knows he's good for it. What happens if Chase Manhattan puts a brand-new East Coast M.B. A. in here...