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...Reporter going in the face of this determined opposition, the newspaper unions dug deep into their treasuries. Eighty Portland locals put up $150,000 to buy and remodel an abandoned Wells Fargo stable; the hayloft still serves as the Reporter's city room. The International Typographical Union shipped sev eral carloads of equipment from Miami, including an ancient Hoe press that was dubbed "Little David," and leased the whole lot to the Reporter for a token $10 a year...
...Galahad. Wham! Whomp! Thunk! Glunk! The Kid in the white satin trunks with the shamrock-green piping is down. The ringside crowd is up and roaring. "Sev-hin, A-yut, Nigh-yen"-the Kid's up again. He's bleeding at the mouth. How much more of this grueling punishment can the Kid take? Well, say another 15 or 20 solid punches right in the kisser. But don't sell the Kid short. He has a heart of gold and a head of lead. When his eyes begin to look like two fried eggs...
...rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner to another in a splendid gallery of sketches spanning sev eral decades, the novel comes down to the simplest of statements of simple faith. "I think my belief in God personal ly supports me.'' says Father-Preacher Donner, putting his lifetime into a sentence, ''and that His presence and angels go with me. gives me grace...
...that the G.O.P. will pick up from Democratic incumbents the 44 seats necessary to gain control of the House. But substantive gains are a strong possibility; some top Democratic strategists say they will be satisfied if their party merely holds its own. And Republicans have high hopes of unseating sev eral Democratic Governors...
...idea dates back to an English surgeon, James Yonge, who advanced it in 1706. Little was done to put it into practice until after World War II, when sev eral European researchers developed vacuum extractors, all based essentially on the ancient suction cup or ventouse (used for every imaginable ailment). Many obstetricians around the world now use the device freely. Yet it has won preliminary public approval from only one research team in Britain...