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...strandees at London's Gatwick Airport [Sept. 18] learned what seasoned travelers have long known-in any kind of emergency, one can expect more help from a casual stranger in the street than from the U.S. embassy. If your money has been stolen, you may be lent enough to cable home for more. If it takes a couple of days for the money to come and you have no place to sleep-tough luck! If you have no one to cable to, tougher still...
...Stranger...
...inherits Gladstone's position at Newell is no stranger to Harvard rowing. Higginson rowed three years as a varsity heavyweight and was the Crimson captain in 1962. In his six years at Noble Greenough Higginson coached teams took three titles in the New England Championships for prep schools...
...gullible deserve to be gulled. "The name of the game" is a phrase that keeps coming from Suskind, who also likes to quote W.C. Fields' untrue statement that "you can't cheat an honest man." It is one thing to offer a gold brick to a stranger, but it is quite another to sell watered stock to your neighbors. Irving based his swindle on the fact that his own publishers knew him and assumed that he was honest. From that misguided trust, as much as from Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else followed. Long before...
Near midnight, after the deed had been done and Richard Nixon was the nominee and the programmed frenzy had died, a warm-faced woman in her 50s shuffled through the debris, turned to a stranger, and in a voice of housewifely distress, said, "My heavens, did you ever see such a mess in your life?" It was down home in Miami Beach with the folks who, it may be, really run America...