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...night it became a smuggler's paradise: signal lamps flickered, whistles sounded and high-power motorboats, guided by shadowy figures with walkie-talkies, roared in from the sea. When they touched shore, a human conveyor belt hustled the contraband out of the boats and into waiting trucks or rail cars...
Coach Horn said the wind at MIT "coming off the Cambridge shore behind the MIT buildings" was "very strange...
...four-man plane flying north over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, over icebergs ten stories high, heading from Boston to an Indian settlement 50 miles south of the Labrador border. Two months earlier, the man flying the plane had told me about towns along the north shore of the Gulf, isolated fishing villages unconnected by roads of any sort, abandoned in the wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew...
...Ford, the U.S. Congress and American opinion. The Pentagon had originally asked for $1.6 billion in military aid, which South Viet Nam desperately needed, but Congress has tentatively trimmed aid for the next fiscal year to $700 million. The Administration had hoped to get $750 million from Congress to shore up Saigon's sagging economy, but Capitol Hill seems more likely to settle for a modest $400 million. For Nguyen Van Thieu, it is money that counts...
...McHale published two exhilarating novels in quick succession: Principato and Farragan's Retreat. In both he revealed wild comic gusto, a youthful, vengeful rage at certain vagaries of the Roman Catholic Church, and a visceral knowledge of middle-class Irish and Italians around Philadelphia and the Jersey shore. McHale was never a stylist; he made up in energy what he lacked in elegance...