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After the Bay of Pigs invasion, similarly, Mansfield wrote that "our sensitivity to this personality [Fidel Castro] and to the Cuban people is not what it ought to be." He recommended "seriously re-evaluating our own base policies on the rim of the Soviet Union" if there was to be forceful opposition to "the establishment of Soviet missiles or any other kind of base for Russian forces in Cuba...
...Nothing and everything," Holmes assured him. "The white rim of Alka-Seltzer around your lips informs me of your gastric distress; the dark circles under your eyes broadcast sleeplessness; the shiny knees of your trousers bespeak prayer in the office...
With eight seconds to play and the score tied at 53-53, Beecroft tipped the ball on a center jump to Penn's 6 ft. 11 in. center Henry Johnson. Johnson shot from the corner, the ball bounced off the rim and into the hands of Beecroft...
...energy crisis has even spawned one boomtown: Taft, Calif, (pop. 4,285). It is on the rim of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, whose wells will have to help fuel the military (seepage 47). Bank deposits are up 35%, and loan requests have increased 25% over last year; 50 new condominiums are being built...
Unfortunately THE LATEST GAME (Why not?) did not merit a spare upper case letter, much less an inch of newspaper copy. The only good thing about the game, if you ask me, was my seat in the coveted pressbox. The shelter, located on the rim of the Bowl, was especially rewarding once the distant mist closed in and turned to drizzle towards the end of the third quarter...