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...them, and spends long moments with each, consoling and almost, one thinks, healing. He has the nimbus of saint and martyr-or at any rate, of a celebrity who has passed through the fire and the greater world; he has come back to them from history, come back with powder burns...
Running a high-energy campaign fueled by peanut butter sandwiches and a concoction of fruit juices and protein powder, Dayton last week rolled over a lethargic comeback bid by former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, 66, en route to the Democratic nomination. Joked McCarthy: "I'm not going to ask for a recount." Durenberger, meanwhile, faced only token opposition in the Republican primary but also campaigned with tireless zest...
...parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water to a San Francisco-based consortium, Energy Transport Systems Inc., which plans to pump the water 260 miles to the coalfields of the Powder River Basin near Gillette, Wyo. Coal slurry would then be moved through conduits to power plants in the South...
...food and supplies for families of the unemployed and imprisoned. There have been no problems finding volunteers to make deliveries. One unemployed journalist with two small children opened his apartment door one day to find a total stranger bringing him a box of diapers, nursing bottles and baby powder. Said another intellectual, now out of work: "This aid is crucial since it means that we cannot be pressured into taking bad jobs...
...with hats and golf-clubs. Most amusing of all, when Don Alhambra, the normally buffoonish grand inquisitor, finds himself in moments of stress, he takes a snort from a small black snuff box he carries; the box occasionally tips over when someone bumps into the Don, and the powder that spills out is unmistakeably white...