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...policemen in the patrol car set out in pursuit of the late-model blue-and-white sedan-license number SC-1-that had sped through a red light in Washington, D.C. Siren howling and red light flashing, the squad car chased the offender for a mile. When he finally pulled to the side of the road, the driver handed over his license. Result: no ticket. Later, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond explained: "The police department informed my office that the officer was inexperienced and expressed regret that the incident occurred." Under federal law, while on official business a member...
...Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding career, contains such elegies of West Side New York as "Sunsets over New Jersey" and such Commen-tariana as "Orthodoxy and Orthodontics." Bech has also succumbed to the siren song of journalism with such artides as "The Landscape of Orgasm" (House and Garden) and "My Favorite Christmas Carol" (Playboy...
...does not know his own parents and was brought up by a guardian whose strict moral precepts still order his life. Perhaps this is why Hind gradually comes to think of himself as the savior of what McElroy calls the "placental" city. Hearing the police emergency siren, Hind "imagined vehicles fading to the side to give way, his own long arms stretching over the heights and depths of the city to whatever injured or dead or suicidal person or persons the truck was going...
...worst was to come after the game, Stuck in traffic. trying to exit from the parking lot. we noticed a group of quite drunken merry-makers of the 1948 clubbie vintage. One of them was marching around the lot sounding a rand-held air raid siren in car windows. Another passed from car to car with a rubber chicken in a pot. Suddenly one of the revelers ripped a peace sticker from my bumper and pasted it across my front windshield. A take-off on the jingoism of "love it or leave it," the sticker read "America-save...
...dreamed about females. What's more, Playboy wasn't interested only in sex. It was the sort of magazine you could read on the Long Island Rail Road because it also published stories by legitimate writers. But lately I have been attracted by your siren song (if full-page newspaper ads can be called that...