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...state's problems have proved an unexpected asset for Maine's Republicans. G.O.P. legislators last month authorized a patently political investigation of M.S.I., and hope to pin the disaster on the Democrats. This will not be too easy. Until the sugar-beet business turned sour, Republicans were just as eager as Democrats to promote the operation, and it was the then Republican Governor, John Reed, who appealed to the legislature to reclassify the Prestile Stream. Even the state's potato farmers, whose votes the Republicans hope to win, must accept some blame for the failure of Vahlsing...
...hard to listen to any of those phrases nowespecially "the University community" -without wearing a sour smirk. The changes that have come to the mythical University community since. 1966 are obvious; what may be less immediately apparent is the way those changes affect a newspaper...
They sniff for a wind. Sour water drips down their tails...
...voice is slightly cockney, a tone entirely appropriate, as it happens, to his subject. For his heart belongs to that peculiar, sprawling, provincial, shabby, comic, still Dickensian conglomeration known as Greater London. That, too, is for the best. Social comedy like Pritchett's might easily turn sour if it were not based on a heart that resists transplant...
...cost Newman a personal paper loss of $6.6 million. Why leave, with so much at stake in Northwest? Newman said that he wanted to take advantage of some "tantalizing situations" outside Northwest, but insiders say that he was simply "not having much fun" at the company after things turned sour...