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...years ago, on March 1, 1932, began one of the great dramas of this century, the kidnaping of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr., only son of the young pilot who had captivated the world by making the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. During this period, Lindbergh and his wife were virtual prisoners in their home in Hopewell, N.J., never answering the prying questions of reporters. In the second volume of her diaries and letters, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, soon to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Anne Morrow Lindbergh finally tells her version...
...either shut down or put on short hours for want of anything to put in the furnaces. In Illinois dozens of grain-elevator operators have been unable to buy gas, leaving heaps of undried grain in danger of rotting. In New York City, American Airlines and TWA converted some nonstop transcontinental flights into interrupted runs so that the planes could fuel up along the way. The schedule changes resulted from cutbacks in jet-fuel deliveries by Texaco refineries...
...Nonstop. Like Thomas Wolfe and other American romanticists, Kerouac found his main preoccupation as a writer in his own responses to himself. He celebrated the open road, the moment intensified by Benzedrine and marijuana and writing nonstop off the top of his head. But Kerouac lived mainly in his memories. "Nostalgia dominated Jack's soul," said his friend and most eloquent eulogist Allen Ginsberg, who also saw Kerouac as "the last of the great American Christian drinkers." It was alcohol that contributed to the abdominal hemorrhaging that killed him three years...
...lack of exercise that are causing us to have so many health problems. We are living in times that are too fast moving, with too many pressures placed upon us. No amount of vitamins or organic foods will alleviate the pressures of living in a nonstop society like 20th century America...
...offering the quartet not only vital inside tips on how to run their offices but also the details of some of the major legislative issues they will face. The course's founder, Mark Talisman, 32, for ten years an assistant to Ohio Congressman Charles A. Vanik, spent one nonstop 4½-hr. class session on such not-so-trivial basics as where to turn in a proposed bill (in the "hopper" at the side of the Speaker's platform), who will assign it to a committee (the parliamentarian), who controls the parliamentarian (the Speaker) and what...