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...OVER BUT THE SHOUTING. "The Voters of Illinois," concluded Chicago Tribune Political Editor F. Richard Ciccone, "left no avenue of hope open for the man [Kennedy] who was almost everybody's hope only six months ago." Wrote Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson: "To suggest that Carter still may stagger while Kennedy somehow miraculously rises defies all reality...
...second time that evening I knew I was going to drown ... I remembered being swept down toward the direction of the Edgartown Light and well out into the darkness." He eventually reached Edgartown but, he said, was so exhausted by the struggle that he could do nothing but stagger the few blocks to his hotel and fall into...
...unless the star is someone even a banker has heard of. Thus, when you want to cast a black version of The Wizard of Oz, you do not hold an audition for beautiful teen-age black girls who can sing like crazy, though the possibilities of such an audition stagger the imagination. You sign up Diana Ross, who is beautiful, sings Like crazy, and is known to bankers from a career dating back to the early '60s, when she was the lead singer of the Supremes. Ross is 34, so the script calls for a Dorothy...
...ANGELES--Battered and bewildered, the Los Angeles Dodgers stagger back into their own ballpark Tuesday night, hopiong to prolong a World Serics that has turned upsidse down on them...
...sure; they always do. But the scavengers--and they are rather more numerous, dear boy, than you might think--would not. They take no chances, you see. They report en masse only when the sure thing is at hand. They do not begin to circle until the footsteps stagger and the body starts to sink upon the sand. They are rarely wrong, dear boy... --Edwin O'Connor, The Last Hurrah...