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...adopted measure, passed 67-1 in the Senate's rush to finish its week's work, is a pale cautionary code unlikely to infringe on the rules of the club or invade any Senator's privacy...
Died Edwin O'Connor, 49, author of 1956's bestselling The Last Hurrah, a fictionalized account of the life of Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley; of a heart attack; in Boston. "A pale carbon copy," hooted Curley when the book came out. Carbon maybe, but pale never, as critics cheered ( nor's fascinating account of the last campaign of the boss of a big-city machine. The book sold over 125,000 copies the first year, went on to become a hit movie, and made O'Connor a fortune He wrote several other books...
...pass through the state every four years, their heads swimming with thoughts of 72 counties, ten Congressional districts, X number of delegates to the national convention. Most students descend on Wisconsin with only Rand McNally memories of the state as a cheese-colored mitten, its thumb thrust into a pale blueness labeled "Lake Michigan...
...Studies in the summer before your freshman year, and at registration there was a display with military things on a clean white table cloth, with a tidy-looking officer standing nearby. Later, looking for your Math 21 section in Shannon Hall, you might have wandered along one of the pale green corridors lined with recruiting posters and framed prints of bombers and medals. And trudging up to your room one fall afternoon, you happened to meet the guy across the hall on the way down, incredibly transformed into a uniformed soldier, and you were both a little embarrassed...
...lecture tour for him) is designed to test our sensibilities, change our perspectives, put us on. Pop Art (one of Warhol's babies) may be dead, but the girl next to me at Winthrop House still showed up in the standard day-glo pink plastic skirt offset by a pale blue paisley blouse and the usual tall black boots...