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...brought her a single red rose when he picked her up. An upperclassman who had known Richard at St. Martin's had lent him his rooms in an upperclass house, a suite, which was safer and more relaxing than where Richard lived, where the presence of any woman at all was strictly forbidden. There was a bottle of chilled champagne and a copy of the Kama Sutra...
...State Department official, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "I'd feel about as comfortable studying Spanish there as in eastern El Salvador. There really are many much safer places to study the language...
...find out what happened in history is enough at the outset without trying too soon to make sure of the "why," I believe it is safer to leave the "why" alone until after one has not only gathered the facts but arranged them in sequence; to be exact, in sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. The very process of transforming a collection of personalities, dates, gun calibers, letters, and speeches into a narrative eventually forces the "why" to the surface. It will emerge of itself one fine day from the story of what happened. It will suddenly appear...
...second half even if it did not preach it. Without doubt, if anything like the Eureka College proposal were to be the basis of an agreement, it would be an improvement on SALT; it would lower, if not shut, the "window of vulnerability"; the world would be a safer place. But also without doubt, the U.S. position is utterly nonnegotiable...
Regardless of the size of the road, the rigs themselves may pose a safety hazard: critics say they are harder to control and more prone to jackknife than smaller trucks. Truck drivers assert, however, that tandem trailers, known in the industry as "double bottoms," are safer than smaller rigs because they have extra axles and better weight distribution. But there is little question that the larger rigs will batter the nation's interstate highway system, initiated in 1956 for trucks far less hefty than today...