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...abutter can do anything he wants to on a private way, but we don't have to plow the snow and stuff like that," Crane said. "But if that's a public way, we'll tell Harvard to cease and desist with the parking spaces and instead put in meters," he added...
...goal is becoming the best at something, even if it is a game. "I'm just a plow-hand from Arkansas," Bryant insists, "but I have learned over the years how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat, together, a team...
...small town America, yet it can be found. Writer Lael Wertenbaker, 71, has discovered just that in Nelson, N.H. (pop. 550). She likes Nelson for many reasons, including the fact that "in winter people know who's pregnant, and the snow-plow gets there first." U.S. Representative Wes Watkins of Ada, Okla. (pop. 17,000), chairman of the Rural Caucus, is not being merely windy when he says, "People in small towns are not numbers...
Backaches can strike almost everyone, the young and the old, males and females, people of all classes and professions. Thomas Jefferson suffered an acute case of backache when he rashly took it upon himself to show his slaves how to use a plow. Ernest Hemingway, who had a nagging back problem, chose to write standing up. To ease the pain of a wartime injury, John Kennedy spent hours in the soothing comfort of a White House rocking chair...
...dipped into when there is no other way to stay in business. The Lyric Opera of Chicago has had to use its fund in just this way, draining it from $2 million to a current $3,500. The San Francisco Opera, on the other hand, is able to plow half the income from its $5 million fund back into future growth...