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...read the first section of the newspaper and try to guess who'll win the elections. The Kennedy race doesn't merit an inch of newsprint; Dukakis over Sears by three percentage points; Weicker over Moflett: Moynihan by a landslide--it's pick 'em who'll do better. Kennedy of stormin' Pat--and my burn knee says Mario "the Mensch" Cuomo will down Law "my-suspenders-are-sewn-to-my-body' Lehman. In a week or two I'll put a out a line whether the Democrats can snag a Senate majority. The Greek is nodding...
...face; and I ran-ran fast-on legs that were tingling with the senselessness of fatigue, and, knowing that I had an exam in 24 hours in a course. I barely remembered I had taken, blood trickling down my very bruised cheek, I flung our single sheets of newsprint, right and left, and yelled. "The hostages are free! The hostages are free!" And then I went home and collapsed...
...least 14 Americans, a Soviet freighter 65 miles east of the rig radioed that it was taking on water and listing badly. Before dawn Tuesday, the 4,262-ton Mikhanik Tarasov-bound from the St. Lawrence River port of Trois Rivières to Leningrad with a load of newsprint-slipped beneath the waves, taking all but five of its 37-man crew to their deaths. By week's end 40 bodies had been recovered from both vessels, and all aboard the Ocean Ranger were presumed dead...
Crimson pressman Brian M. Byrne produced the four-color photo, threading a single web of newsprint through all three units of the Goss Community Press in the basement of the paper's 14 Plympton St. building...
Rather, he has a close instinct for the disconnected emblems of a moment-the faces glimpsed in smeared newsprint, the sense of not having the whole story that comes from living at no remove from traumatic events...