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...This is the one book to have if you're having only one. The authors have rifled the diaries, journals, letters and reports of hundreds of participants and woven them into a totally absorbing, seamless war narrative that a novelist might envy. The voices range from Joseph Plumb Martin, an irrepressible private ("The grapeshot and langrage flew merrily") to General Washington, who was often prey to justifiable private gloom. (All might be well, he reflected in 1776, if his soldiers "would behave with tolerable resolution. But experience, to my extreme affliction, has convinced me that this is rather...
...easy task. Here too a car will come in handy. You could invest $15 in a pass to the pool at the Indoor Athletic Building, which is a good deal, but doesn't solve the all important beach problem. The best ones are up on routes 1A and 1B--Plumb Island, Salisbury Beach; Crane's Beach and dozens of others. Parking will cost you up to $3. If it's sailing you're after, you might do well to check out Community Boating, Inc. at the MDC Boathouse on the Charles, where you can get unlimited access to boats...
...conduct six surveys for us, three during the primaries and three more following the party conventions. Building on the body of data gathered up in two years of quarterly TIME Soundings, the last of which appears in this issue, these polls will not only rank the candidates but also plumb changing voter attitudes. The goal is to study America while it is evaluating the candidates...
...Curtis would sit around, often high on speed, while Ray would spin out the details of how he would do the job ... Ray said he would have the place all set up, all lined up, then he would get his money, his papers. It was his idea to get plumb out of the country...
America is now at its nadir, but we did not realize that even with your Watergate experience you could once more plumb such depths of mendacity and such hypocrisy. James Alexander Rentoul Howard Norman Oxford, England...