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...embracing O'Connor, who as New York City council president was already the leading aspirant for the nomination. Instead, he shopped around for a man who would be both personally loyal to him and possessed of the New Frontier stamp. He finally settled on Eugene Nickerson, 48, a smooth, handsome type who is county executive in suburban Nassau. But Kennedy declined to fight openly for Nickerson. While Bobby waited in vain for Nickerson or someone else acceptable to him to gain momentum, O'Connor worked hard and successfully rounding up delegates for next month's state convention...
...onto the east slope of Mount Steele in Canada's Yukon Territory. Perhaps 20,000 years old, it looked much the same as any other glacier-until six weeks ago, when Upton gazed down and did a double take. To his astonishment, Steele Glacier's normally mirror-smooth surface now was churned into cathedral-like spires 250 ft. tall. The huge chunk of ice was on the move...
...more than a little apprehensive over their reception after the fuss kicked up by John's crack that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. "We've got to go to America to get beaten up," moaned George Harrison as they left London. Now John was trying to smooth things over. "I never meant it as a lousy irreligious thing. I'm sorry," he continued contritely. "He really believes in Christianity," insisted George...
...which I don't have to look at anything I don't wish to." Con men and con women bilk him of a fortune and enclose his spirit brick by brick behind a wall of paranoia. A male model and his wife, whom he hires to smooth his way in New York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into paying dearly for another thousand acres and a herd of Angora goats for the production of "Capricorn...
...know," said one of the boys with calm and deliberate hostility, "that you are a roaring, screaming, flying asshole." He repeated the declaration several times, but got no response. The marcher sat quietly, slowly running his hand over the smooth grass...