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Vivian's lover, or suitor, follows her around on a big horse, appearing at odd moments out of the bushes. Her father (Ruby's brother) trying out a new sit-down lawnmower given to him for his birthday, detects the presence of a stranger when he discovers a pile of horse dung on the lawn. But he is too late: Vivian has already climbed out of her bedroom and is riding away with her arms around her lover...
Another policeman walked along the line telling people to check all packages. "Make sure you have your Visitor's Pass," he called. "You must have a pass to get in." He was referring to the pink Visitor's Pass for the Ninety-second Congress Second Session; a pile of them were on each Senator's desk to hand out to their visitors...
That hill-country heehaw is no longer a laughing matter. After a series of messy political scandals, restive Texans turned out last week for the state primary in record numbers and shook the conservative Democratic establishment from top to bottom. When the spring cleaning was over, the discard pile included Governor Preston Smith, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, 78 state legislators and scores of other veteran local officeholders...
...Countries that pile up big international-payments surpluses should be compelled to reduce them; in addition, debtor countries like the U.S. should be forced to wipe out big deficits...
...money is." The same reasoning - though not the same modus operandi-is prodding foreign businessmen and government representatives toward Tokyo in quest of loans and investment money. They get a warm welcome from Japanese bankers, businessmen and government officials, who face the unusual problem of reducing an embarrassingly enormous pile of cash...