Word: regular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bivouac troops in two parks near the hall and in five public high schools. Halsted Street, which runs along the east side of the amphitheatre, will be accessible only to special buses for a mile. Cross streets leading into it, from 39th to 47th Streets, will be closed to regular traffic...
...where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with my two children at home for his golfing. I make my husband mind my children once in a while so that I can come here and dance with the boys." Adds another: "My husband...
...dupe. Trapped in an East African revolution, he gives up his vocation as a carpenter and buys a worthless grocery store from a wily Indian named Fakhru. Fakhru fleeces Fong daily, ultimately conning him into buying 27 cases of black-market UNICEF milk, on the unlikely chance that the regular milk train will be derailed by revolutionary terrorists. Meanwhile, Fong becomes a political pingpong ball in a riotous contest between Chinese Communists and American agents, both of whom have somehow concluded that Fong is a pivot in the ideological struggle between East and West. Fong endures it all with...
...like to see more relieved. So, too, would Thieu, but competent replacements are hard to find. Old avenues of corruption persist as well. Draft exemptions can still be bought: it costs only $425 to become a secret-police agent or $250 to join the Regional Forces and thus escape regular army service. And big names still enjoy protection. Not long ago, an ARVN colonel was charged with corruption but was not tried because he had too much influence...
...fact that the new service does not yet have direct railway links to either London or Paris. The British Railways Board, which operates the crossings, hopes to eliminate most of the kinks in the next few months. Despite an adult fare of $8.40, compared with $6.24 for a regular ferryboat, most of last week's travelers seemed more than satisfied...