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Follow the Leader. In Port Washington, Wis., city employees were administered their Asian-flu vaccinations in order of their importance to the community: garbage detail, rubbish sweepers, waterworks employees, sewage-disposal-plant worker, mayor, aldermen...
...Italian and French). His view of himself was generally rueful, whether he was commenting on his physical "cowardice" or remarking on his "steely cheerfulness in what does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere.' " When he was losing his eyesight he devoted hours to reading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but lost patience after two pages of a book about D. H. Lawrence's sex-ridden Lady Chatterley's Loner...
...subsource" promptly identified himself as Pat Walsh, a onetime courier for the Communists who is now secretary of the Pan-Canadian Anti-Communist League. "Mistaken identity-rubbish," scoffed Walsh in an interview with the Toronto Telegram. "My report was the facts of the case. The second report [clearing NormanJ was the intervention of Pearson...
...chance to record these dialects. The sons and daughters don't know them." Were it not for such research, posterity might never know that once upon a time-back in 1957-an Englishman could throw away ket, kelter, ketment, rommit, rammill and muck-and still only be discarding rubbish...
...Germany Off Limits is already a bestseller. The crass coating of sex and corn on this propaganda pill, plus the easygoing American tendency to let bygones be bygones, may make the book almost as successful in the U.S., although it is rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows...