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...like to talk about their experiences and it is just that--myth. But as hard as I can remember, no one ever asked me one word about my war. In sardonic moods I used to go to Cronin's, when Cronin's was where it should be, right smack in the heart of things, and ask people in booths: Hey, wanna hear some good war stories? Not one taker...
...Indy 500 month in Indianapolis. With drivers revving up to shoot for record 200-m.p.h. laps in trials last week and the Speedway crowd already filling downtown hotels, it was a marvel that any other sport made the local papers, let alone the front page. But there, smack on page one of the Indianapolis News-for five consecutive days-was a series on basketball. The subject: Indiana Pacer Forward George McGinnis, known to the 17,000 fans who have been packing Pacer games recently as "Big Mac," "Baby Bull," or just plain "McGinnis the Magnificent...
James Taylor. From high school suicide attempts to heavy self-indulgence to smack, James Taylor has been exactly what a lot of unhappy and often upper-middle class were looking for. He's finished now, though--replaced by different brands of navel-gazing, and it's too bad about the introspective dead-end, because at times near the beginning of his career Taylor looked as though he might emerge as a talented guitar-picker who had a relaxed and down-home North Carolina road music. By the end the dentist's office radio stations were playing JT. Anyway, what...
...about $10.44 per bbl.), and is lending the money back to those nations for development projects. The interest charged is reasonable-from 6% to 8%-but the Caracas government must approve the uses to which the loans are put. To a degree, Venezuela's helping-hand programs smack of a paternalism that at another time and in other hands, was condemned as gringo imperialism. Pérez occasionally seems to envision himself a Simón Bolivar of the space age, seeking to build Venezuelan hegemony in the region. Yet the President dismisses the notion, and talks of wider...
...eight fedayeen on the suicidal mission were dropped by a fishing smack, which was later captured by Israeli patrol ships outside Israel's territorial waters. The raiders grounded their boat near a sewage outlet on the edge of Tel Aviv. Unnoticed, they stepped ashore, armed with rapid-fire Kalashnikovs and high-explosive charges...