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...final version reads: "The committee notes that the final clubs, after a review of the issues, have decided to revert to their independent status...
...What happens is that you revert to your roles I'm back doing what I do. The citizens are back doing what they do and the city is back doing what it does, and that's where the whole thing can fall down," says Rotondo...
This revelation, added to postwar years of teaching, produced Lord of the Flies (1954), a taut parable about a group of English schoolboys who are deposited for safekeeping on a coral island while their elders wage nuclear war. Slowly but inexorably, they revert to savagery. "The theme," Golding explained, "is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." The book sold modestly in both England and the U.S. (2,383 copies), but a paperback reprint issued in 1959 hit pay dirt. It became the desired and then the required reading for millions...
...agents until her death last year. Congress had to pass a $1 million supplemental appropriation after Lady Bird Johnson cruised the Greek islands with friends and twelve Secret Service agents. The measure would also stipulate that the profits retired Presidents earn from books written at Government expense would revert to the Treasury. Nixon, Ford and Carter all had help from Government-paid staffers in writing their bestselling memoirs...
Many students said they do not think the law will cut down on alcohol consumption at Princeton, although in future the underage drinkers may have to revert to their tried and true high school methods for obtaining booze...