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...JOHN D. PIKE Statesboro...
...picked up at Filene's basement. Part of his effectiveness, too, was Cushing's broad, transparent humanity, which seemed to embrace not only every faith but even, on occasion, rather conflicting ideologies. "He had a good word to say for everyone who came down the pike," explained an admirer in discussing Cushing's mixed bag of enthusiasms. He was an early, lifelong member of the N.A.A.C.P., and the first Catholic prelate to urge his flock to attend Billy Graham's crusades. He could also praise the anti-Communism of the John Birch Society and write...
...Perhaps an even more exciting aspect of Spengler's life is his experience with cars. In the last 18 months, he has been in three accidents. The first one was two summers ago when he put his Volkswagen through a 360-degree spin on the Mass Pike before it flipped over. He was not hurt...
Optimistic organizers wanted a crowd of 5000. Less than 1000 showed. You knew it when there were no hitchhikers at the entrance to the Mass Pike. Perhaps the only people hoping for a crowd were the Connecticut state police. They had the radar set up and it seemed that most of the speeders happened to be kids. But maybe it just seemed that way because they caught...
...realize that mercury changes its potency in water; through a complex chemical reaction, the relatively harmless inorganic form is transformed into deadly methyl mercury. Minute amounts are picked up by microorganisms, which are then eaten by small fish, which in turn are eaten by large predatory fish like pike and pickerel. When humans eat these fish, they can receive dosages of methyl mercury massive enough to cause blindness, brain damage, and even death...