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...Tokyo, correspondents from three news bureaus were on hand when leaders of the U.S. and six other petroleum-importing countries met to forge a common strategy on the oil problem. Washington Correspondents Johanna McGeary, Gregory H. Wierzynski and George Taber followed President Carter throughout the talks and on an odyssey that included state visits to Japanese and Korean leaders. Hong Kong Correspondent Ross H. Munro and members of the Tokyo bureau kept tabs on the European and Canadian delegations to the summit, who were housed, inconveniently enough, some miles away from the U.S. envoys. "The heavy security was a joke...
...determined fellow booked a single-day odyssey starting in Cleveland and whipping through Youngstown, Akron, Youngstown (again), Pittsburgh and back to Cleveland to collect five coupons. Ads offering top dollar for coupons have appeared in newspapers. Coupon traders flocked to airports, and last week the going price jumped from $5 to $20. The Federal Government, the state of California and many corporations have insisted that employees clip coupons to their expense accounts...
...game lasted only two hours and ten minutes, hardly a fair trade off for the hopes lodged in Thursday's eight-hour Odyssey to vengeful Ithaca...
INTERSTATE 90--"Our finest lad is down!" "You killed the best in Ithaka." Odyssey, XXII...
...tries to describe his first wife to this woman. "She was a kindergarten teacher, then she got into drugs and moved to San Francisco. She went to est, became a Moonie. She works for the William Morris Agency now." In that throwaway speech he has captured the archetypal odyssey of our time. Wistful questings, the dopey cons with which our society too often responds, the inevitable end in materialism?they are all there in that ingeniously compressed comic moment...