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...young protagonist of The Coffin on the Hill climbs aboard a houseboat on the Yangtze River (Welch was born in Shanghai, where his father was a partner in a firm that managed rubber plantations): "Leaning forward and putting out my tongue I licked the brass rim of one of the portholes, in order to realize the ship with all my senses. Then I curled up in a corner of the fitted seat and felt like a mole, or some other perfectly happy blind animal, burrowing deeper and deeper, coming at last to its true home...
...tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow enough here to fill up my driveway. "His comment reached the local Red River Valley Potato Growers Association, which decided to prove the catcher-manager and new Houston Astros coach wrong by trucking 46 50-lb. boxes to his door. Berra's not telling, but what deliveryman could have resisted shouting, "Hey, Yogi, this spud...
...that occasionally attends the mother and child." These teenage and older men are not the forgotten partners. In most cases the male abandons the female when she tells him that she is having his child. The double standard still exists in the area of teenage pregnancy. Sister Jean Kenny River Grove...
...even more serious investigation began in July, when three bodies clad in designer jeans were found floating in the Miami River. Informants telephoned the U.S. Customs Service's drug hotline to report that the trio was part of a group of six men guarding a boatload of 300 to 400 kilos of cocaine. When approached by a menacing gang of eight to twelve men wearing what appeared to be Miami police uniforms, all six dopers went over the side. Halfevidently drowned; the other three have not been found. The blue uniformed men, meanwhile, fled with the cocaine...
...economy during 1985 carried U.S. business ahead at the sleepy pace of Ol' Man River. Rolling along at a modest 2.4% rate, it provided most companies with just enough propulsion to make for a comfortable ride. But if the economic mainstream was smooth, the trip for many voyagers was as hair-raising as a Snake River rafting expedition. In 1985 a parade of slumps, scandals, panics and just plain goofs rocked the business world. All the while, an unprecedented wave of acquisitions was swallowing up such well-known corporate names as ABC, RCA, Nabisco, General Foods and Revlon...