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...trucks would not extend to those carrying dangerous cargo, such as oil or gas. These types of trucks are presently banned from the Mass Pike in the central Boston area...
...Miss., bakes a potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...
...boat-loving C. Kilmer Myers, the Daring will serve as a year-round home-and Myers is paying the reported $50,000 price out of his own pocket. When Myers was elected to the see of California in 1966, after the resignation of the late James A. Pike, he inherited a 19-room mansion that the diocese, at Pike's request, had bought for more than $100,000. Bishop Myers requested that the residence be sold and the money used for a better cause. He and his family set up quarters in a more modest San Francisco apartment. They...
Demonic Dangers. At least some clergymen have chosen the path of investigation. The late Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike was probably the most enthusiastic?and for more orthodox Christians, embarrassing?investigator, claiming to have communicated with his dead son with the aid of the minister-medium the Rev. Arthur Ford. Ford and other, somewhat less flamboyant Protestant ministers had even earlier formed a group known as the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship to open a bridge between traditional Christianity and the occult. For evangelicals and fundamentalists, on the other hand, nearly every aspect of the occult still remains a demonic danger, from...
Coming Up for Air, George Orwell's fictional elegy for a vanished England, includes a celebration of boyhood fishing. The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge." Pike were beyond the boy's reach: "They'd have broken any tackle I possessed...