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...abroad ranged from dismay to a kind of shocked ribaldry. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? headlined Stockholm's Expressen. "Nixon has a Greek running mate," cracked Bob Hope, "and now everyone wants one." Said a former Kennedy aide: "She's gone from Prince Charming to Caliban." In a more sober vein, French Political Commentator André Fontaine wrote in Le Monde: "Jackie, whose staunch courage during John's funeral made such an impression, now chooses to shock by marrying a man who could be her father and whose career contradicts?rather strongly, to say the least?the liberal spirit that animated President...
...responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests." I am wondering what you propose to do with the drunks? Leave them lie to be rolled by other nighttime characters? Leave them lie to become sick? Leave them lie as an unsightly and disgusting sight for sober citizens? I realize that my thinking (based on over twenty years as a Village Justice) is not on all fours with the current thinking on how to cure alcoholism. Perhaps it is a disease but I have "dried out" many an alcoholic with a jail sentence (where alcoholic beverages were denied...
...departure this was for performers. But in the years after Presley, white Rock and Roll became a very restrained affair for the most part. At the time the Beatles really began to make it, the English scene was dominated by a group called the Shadows. The Shadows wore "sober, terribly neat stage dress of gray suits, matching ties and highly polished shoes. They did little dance steps, three one way and three the other. Everything was neat, polished but restained in their appearance as well as their music...
...Riencourt takes that outdated boast with deadly seriousness. Something deep in the character of the Puritan (an "iron-hard, practical, sober fanatic dedicated to hard work") ideally equips Americans to play 20th century Romans. When Puritan qualities are combined with the "innate and relentless expansionism" of the frontiersman, it becomes clear that "it was just not in [Americans'] dynamic temper to become the peaceful Swiss of the Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire...
...estate, including the two largest hotels and a complex of beachside houses and cottages. It now owns property there assessed at $1,500,000. The hotels are operated on a nonprofit basis. Hotelier Mclntire keeps his room rates modest (as low as $11 a day single) and his guests sober (neither hotel has a bar). His takeover in Cape May has provided a permanent headquarters for his religious movement, which he calls the Twentieth Century Reformation. A jowly six-footer with a shock of wavy hair greying at the temples and an impressive Roman nose, Mclntire oozes the polished grace...