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...only present obliquely. We never find out who the Jack of Hearts is, or what happens to him when it's all over. You feel the song could be twenty times as long: there's room for that much more detail. What Dylan has included is just a slice out of what's in his mind--the same kind of feeling you had about songs like "Memphis Blues Again" or "Desolation Row," that there must be dozens of other stanzas to them somewhere, that Dylan could have just gone on and on if he'd felt like it. "Lily...
...before you can reserve your subway fare, balcony seat, cup of beer and pizza slice at the Garden. Harvard, seeded on top, has to escape Clarkson, the eighth seed, in Watson Rink tonight as the ECAC tournament quarterfinals get underway at four different collegiate ice palaces. Across the river second seed Boston University hosts seventh-seeded Brown, and up north third-seeded Vermont entertains sixth-seed Providence, while fourth-seeded Cornell invites fifth-seeded New Hampshire into the makepit known as Lynah Rink...
...Force purchase alone could create up to 60,000 new jobs in the U.S. aerospace industry, where total employment has been static at about 968,000 for the past three years. Nearly 30% of the Air Force spending on the YF-16 would flow to Fort Worth; another large slice would go to the plants in Connecticut and Florida where Pratt & Whitney will build the YF-16s' $1.5 million jet engines. General Dynamics last year overtook Lockheed as the U.S.'s largest defense contractor (total 1974 sales: about $2 billion), but the order comes at a time when...
...come on impulse from his home three minutes away, did not seem pressured by this. Nor did he seem aware of a rapidly approaching lunch date, or the morning appointment for which he was already late. A meticulously considerate man under most circumstances, Horowitz was grinning at a shriveling slice of apple skin while people were waiting for him, ten feet and ten miles away...
What, he asks, is a car? "A car is a rolling sneeze, a slice of selfishness." Train travel, by contrast, can be "the most nearly perfect way of moving from one place to another." In many nations, notably France, Italy, Germany and Japan, there are commodious sleepers, cooked-aboard meals, and the kindly service that has been supplanted in the U.S. by the do-it-yourselfism of Howard Johnson motels and Amtrak sandwich bars. Even the U.S. expense-account ethos has done little to encourage elegance or comfort on the rails...