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...years I have been trying to cope with the role most House Secretaries have been hired to play in the lives of undergraduates, and so it is good to hear of an opinion that doesn't reflect a widespread paranoia among students concerning House Secretaries' plots to ruin their lives...
...Arthur Hailey writes holding-pattern prose. He advances one of his homunculi three-and-a-half pages toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land...
...years," gloated Delmar Grotefendt, surveying the fields of ripe golden corn on his 350-acre farm in Marine, Ill. Only last year corn blight, which destroyed 15% of the nation's corn harvest, rotted black much of Grotefendt's planting. Farmers feared that the virulent fungus might ruin up to half the crop this summer. Yet last week, a mood of quiet satisfaction was evident across the U.S. heartland as farmers began bringing in one of the most bountiful harvests in history...
...damp, ovation. At the end of the première, Bernstein wept helplessly as the audience thundered its applause, then launched into a marathon fit of kissing everyone in reach. "May I kiss you one more time?" he asked Rose Kennedy. Said Rose gently; "I think it will ruin my makeup." Tact may have accounted for some of the praise, but in the case of 87-year-old Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and one of Washington's more outspoken oldtimers, tact was beside the point. "I liked Hair better," said Alice...
...laid out nearly $1,000,000 in legal fees and lobbying for the merger. Naturally, their competitors are dead set against the merger and have engaged in some vigorous lobbying themselves. "If the merger goes through," warns Continental Air Lines President Robert Six, "the muscle of this giant would ruin the smaller carriers, and they will desperately seek a merger partner and get out before they are overrun and overcome...