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Although Boudin says he "slid by accident into the law," his progress was almost inevitable. His father was a real-estate lawyer in Brooklyn; young Boudin spent his Saturdays clipping law journals in his father's office. Following law school at St. John's, he joined his uncle's firm, which specialized in trade-union cases. He had just set up his own practice when the cold war started, and Boudin undertook to defend union clients against charges of Communist influence. Did he have ideological reasons? "Not at all," he says. "I not only was never...
...biggest supermarketeer. Determined to recapture its dominant position, A. & P. has converted 3,700 of its 4,200 stores to WEO, and by fall all of them will be discounting. The company trimmed its prices so low that its gross profit margin (before taxes and operating expenses) has slid to an estimated 12%, v. about 14% for most discount food chains and 21% for conventional supermarkets...
...going bad. Once a movement that leaped like brush fire along the 19th century frontier, the U.M.C. has suffered a net loss of 518,000 members in the past four years-the biggest of any church in U.S. history. Over a longer time span Sunday school attendance has slid by onefourth, the once-prized foreign missionary force by one-fifth. A recent survey by U.M.C. program planners found that grass-roots Methodists bitterly distrust church officials...
...slid gingerly into the water, which was colder that at most of the London pools. The Camden pool somehow seemed more serious that most, what with its colder water and the spectator stands and the modern dressing rooms. The others had cramped, Victorian halls, with columns and red bricks, and chipped, discolored tiles...
When Gene Hackman was a young man just out of the Marines, he "slipped and slid around" New York City for two years in one job after another. One night, while he was working as a doorman at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Times Square, his old Marine captain walked by. Their eyes met in awkward recognition. The captain looked him up and down and sneered: "Hackman, you're a sorry son of a bitch...