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...Omaha Omen. McCarthy tried mightily to make his 27% in Indiana sound like a majority; some early projections had credited him with less. "We've tested the enemy now, and we know his techniques," he declared. "We know his weaknesses." But it was McCarthy's weaknesses-of organization, among Negro voters and as a general campaigner-that were laid bare. Many professionals have been saying that the McCarthy bloom would not survive the summer, and for McCarthy summer may come cruel and early...
...clocks, quaint archaic radios and phonographs, fringed lampshades and a golden harp. A man in a policeman's uniform slowly enters the attic room and sniffs the dust of decades. He walks over to the harp and plucks at a string. It is slack, jangled and flat-an omen of the theatrical evening to come...
...soon take over Gio Linh, Con Thien and all the exposed positions where the Marines have taken such heavy casualties in the past year. This changing of the guard along the vital DMZ line is a measure of the new respect for the ARVN. It is also an earnest omen of the responsibilities that it must some day assume everywhere in South Viet...
...ship Valkyrien foundered on the coast of Scotland in 1883, Danish Captain Peter Maersk MØller thought he saw a seven-pointed star in the sky. Even in that moment of disaster, MØller, an optimist if ever there was one, decided that he had witnessed an omen of good fortune. Apparently he was right: today the family flag, a seven-pointed white star on a light blue field, is known the world over. It flies on 92 freighters, tankers and other vessels of the Maersk Line, over a shipyard and machinery and petrochemical plants, even over...
...here we've had our youthful fling and have settled down to a loving middle age of sorts. That's a good omen for the future of the young'uns down in Connecticut, though we never had their distance problem when we were courting. But all good love stories bring back fond memories, and when Radcliffe brings us our slippers tonight. we'll hold her hand just a little tighter thinking about kid brother and his girl sighing, waving, and squinting at each each other through the blue mist of the Connecticut hills. We know what they're after...