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...successor, just a year after the former U.S. President's visit to Egypt. The second was a gamble that a new Arab-Israeli war could be averted: a ceremony marking the reopening of the Suez Canal on the anniversary of its closure in 1967 at the outset...
...most interesting thing Exley's parenthetical comments reveal is that he knew from the outset that Pages wasn't working. Realizing it only contained tidbits of his life and occasional references to A Fan's Notes and with the debts still looming overhead. Exley banished the 480 pages of typescript to the back of his rusting Chevy and began a personal odyssey in search of material. But the people he meets are tedious, and by this time his reflections have become predictable. If anything, Exley seems too detached, to the point of being callous...
Among the major candidates, only state Senator Timilty of Mattapan remains. He will probably be White's toughest competition in the preliminary. His support comes mostly from white, middle-class, middle-income families. He has opposed forced busing from the outset, but has not gained a large following on the issue because he has avoided rallies (his children are being bused and he feels that such public appearances would not help them). Still, of all White's opponents, Timilty has the broadest base of support, a good organization and several key issues...
...morning qualifying heats set the stage for the afternoon's festivities. The freshman lights drove off the line from the outset and easily outdistanced seeded competitors Navy and Penn...
Thirty-two FBI offices had helped unravel the crime. Ironically, it was the red-herring reference to the Weatherman that brought the FBI into the case at the outset. The alleged conspiracy sounds something like a Mannix plot on TV-with a few Fellini-esque wrinkles. According to the indictment, Moeller paid $50,000 in company funds to David Bubar, 47, a trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately...