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...recall reading that S.I. Hayakawa [June 21] once suggested that, if a man were drowning 50 feet from shore, a Republican would throw him a 25-ft. rope and tell him to swim to the other end of the rope because it would be good for his character, whereas the Democrat would throw him a 100-ft. rope and run off looking for others to save...
...November, when the leaders spent a weekend at the Cháteau de Rambouillet near Paris as the guests of Giscard. Then the mood was anxious concern about the worldwide recession. This time, as the leaders talked for eight hours at the Dorado Beach Hotel, overlooking a palm-lined shore, the mood was optimistic. The only real worry was that the world recovery might be proceeding too quickly...
...long fuse to a keg of powder and fled. Five of the British boats emerged from the fog and sent boarding parties onto the Nancy. Just as they took possession, with three cheers, the cached gunpowder went off. Says one witness: "Eleven dead bodies have since come on shore with two gold-laced hats and a leg with a garter...
...British feared reprisals. He is now on a British frigate sailing along the American coast ?a possible exchange for some captured English officer. Word of Allen's fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
...cheap thrills, there is only one place to go--Paragon Park at Nantasket Beach on the South Shore. It has a not very bad roller coaster, although those who fondly remember vomiting at Palisades Amusement Park in Fort Lee, N.J., will not be impressed. This place is surrounded by penny arcades, bad food, and denizens of all varieties. Enjoy...