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...Numbers. Moving by the numbers, hat-changing ministers rushed from meetings of the Big Three to reconstitute themselves as The Four, The Six, The Eleven, The Fifteen, The Seventeen. They talked of defense shortcomings, of economic welfare, of hangman's justice in Cyprus, and gun patrols off Iceland...
There were seventeen problems: money; passports; tetanus-typhoid-yellow fever shots; a Greek landlady bearing an expensive product (Snyde would say, Beware! I hated him); reservations on a plane carrying ginger ale to be served with Dramamine at Gander; German, French, Italian, and Spanish for the Swiss Alps; Greek for the return voyage...How else could we preserve the rapture of passion which comes when you eat pastry at the Patisserie Cafe Morceau beside the girl you love...
...hard to know exactly what to make of Ruth. For a time she appears as a disillusioned Leftist intellectual: she says she has just quit the party, after "seventeen years. It's rather like walking out on a lover." She and Dillon discuss this major crisis in her life for half a page or so, and then drop it, permanently...
Capote never received a rejection slip. He peddled his first story to Storybook magazine when he was seventeen, "and I've sold everything since. Of course, I'm not very prolific. I've only written a total of twenty stories in all, and I spend up to five months on one short story. If it were rejected then, that would really be a disaster...
...seventeen ragged minutes in the second period, play raged with nothing but an occasional offside whistle, before each side exploded with a sterling offensive play. With Dan Dolan of B.U. resting in the penalty box after tripping Mc- Laughlin, Fischer broke around the defense on the left and shot on Tanner. The puck bounced off the backboard, but the center grabbed his own rebound and stuffed it in the cage...