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Shattered by that kind of accusation, a husband may try to repair his ego by a daring act of air piracy-at the same time symbolically getting back at other members of his family. Observes Hubbard: "It is not difficult to discern the delight they experienced when they approached little sister-mother stewardess, gun in hand, and said, 'Honey, we're going all the way -to Cuba,' and the sense of power they derived from making daddy (flying the plane) stay put, making him permit the abuse of sister-mother, and forcing him to perform the bidding...
...think of nothing I'd like less than having other females, with no medical experience, practice do-it-yourself gynecology on me. What happens after their diagnosis and treatment are wrong? I suppose they will refer the patient to a licensed gynecologist-like my husband-to repair the damage. (MRS.) PATRICIA JARVAIS GEARY Middletown...
...feel happy in ways the politicians had not expected; they found joy in banding together to exercise a power they had never known before. Their projects were hardly radical. They kept their children out of class to force stingy school boards to expand hot-lunch programs and to repair schools and outhouses. They established cooperative grocery stores to bypass merchants who raised prices on days when food stamps were issued. They exposed officials who used state-financed work gangs to improve their private property. They documented the practice of bureaucrats who paid $5, or sometimes $3 and a bottle...
...sailors. And because ships can be built more cheaply in Japan, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Spain-indeed, almost anywhere outside the U.S.-the nation has sunk to 14th in the ranks of shipbuilding countries. Since the huge construction rush in World War II, yards have been kept afloat mainly by repair work and Navy orders. The result was bluntly described to TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan by Maritime Administrator Robert J. Blackwell: "We are faced with a sorely depleted fleet...
...that haven't exactly fattened his already emaciated average. In the Colgate contest, Murray sen' a "snake killer" at shoe lace level blazing into the linesmen on the side, knocking two of them down, and sending Cornell's newly acquired orange half-moon downs markers back to Harvard for repair. That gem went for five yards. But, perhaps Murray's most celebrated kick came on a field goal attempt against Penn last week. In three games, he has his on one field goal in five attempts. The one success coming on a sand wedge from 11 yards out against Rutgers...