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...Crimson waited 18 minutes to score in the second period as well, grabbing a 2-1 lead when Falcone flipped the puck over a pile of defenders at 18:10. Almost everybody on the ice had a shot at the puck, and the ref even gave the goal to Mark Fusco, but when the mess in front of the St. Lawrence net unscrambled, it was Falcone from Rick Benson and Dave Burkc...
...Address. The work began in standard fashion: aides delivered to Reagan copies of every Inaugural speech from George Washington's to Jimmy Carter's, a dozen advisers submitted memoranda, Speechwriter Ken Khachigian prepared a draft. Flying back to California from Washington two weeks ago, Reagan read the pile of paper. Then the old actor, who has a superb inner ear for the crowd-pleasing phrase, put the whole mass aside and started out from scratch on a blank sheet of paper. Said he to aides, half apologetically: "I've got to do it in my own words...
Drew, like many of the present generation of New Yorker reporters, writes pile-on sentences that mock the magazine's pride in being well written...
...officers then helped the protesters pile the trees in a neat four-foot barricade, leaving a passageway for pedestrians to enter and leave the building. Few of the demonstrators, most of who were over registration age, entered the post office, and the barricade was removed late in the afternoon...
...course, the anecdote gives everything and nothing. In the movies, The Story of Ronald Reagan might be built of such stuff, like the "story" of Jim Thorpe, but not a life; the life has to be discovered elsewhere. At least the facts pile up neatly: born Feb. 6, 1911, Tampico, Ill.; son of John Edward and Nelle Wilson Reagan; younger brother...