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Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
...Levitt), an incipient slut, has been pushed past the edge of mental stability, and at moments of extreme stress goes into convulsive spasms. Since any display of affection is cauterized by the mother's tongue, the younger daughter (Pamela Payton-Wright) lavishes her care and love on a plump white rabbit...
...sand is the same golden brown color as the disappearing sun. A sparkling shaft of light moves with me as I run. I am very young; maybe ten, because I remember that my sister is the girl whose hand I am holding. We are laughing, tan all over, with plump brown stomachs hanging...
...Builder. Winston A. Burnett has illustrated what a Negro manager can do when he finds enough capital to expand. Harlem's Burnett, now plump and 45, learned about construction from the bottom up by working as a painter, plasterer and carpenter in his youth. Later he built one of Harlem's larger contracting firms, Winston A. Burnett Construction Co.; it had a yearly volume of $1,000,000. Despite his experience and his sound business practices-he continually reinvested all profits in the company-Burnett could not get the bank loans, and especially the performance bonds, needed...
...long one and not all valuable. But oh yes here: THE RICE PLANTER AND THE RICE GLEANER ARE ONE. THE GATHERER-AND-GLEANER FEEDS US AND SO IS NAMED "THE LOVELY ONE." BUT THE LOVELY ONE STANDS IN DANGER OF HUNGER AND OF LOSING HIMSELF WHILST WE GROW PLUMP...