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Correspondent John Tompkins, whose regular beat is business news, surveyed the reactions of financiers and industry executives in New York. Like Hannifin and Neff, Tompkins is no stranger to technology. In 1966, he published a book, Weapons of World War HI, in which he discussed the supersonic prospects...
Auntie Mame would feel like a stranger in her creator's Paradise, Patrick Dennis' latest novel. The charisma, cheerful talent and canny sense of the absurd that brought fame to Mame are conspicuously absent this time. Too bad, because Dennis has invented a situation with comic possibilities. At the start of the tourist season an earthquake transforms an Acapulco resort into an island rocked by storms. Both amenities and necessities swiftly disappear. As Dennis' caricatures try to cope with life in the raw, long-distance television cameras grind away from the shore, picking up every grisly move...
...great tower of learning whose only relationship to the community is either as land developer or slumlord. The student remains entirely isolated from the thousands of real people who live and play and work outside the walls of Harvard. Throughout his stay he is very much a stranger to the community which is theoretically his home nine months out of the year. Consequently he has no conception of the problems besetting the community, and thus is unable to act in defense of the community. He has no ties, and thus no obligation to the community...
...Even stranger than seeing Ali lose was seeing the Garden in one piece afterwards. Not one fire extinguisher was ripped off the wall; there were no teeth on the floor, at least not in section 131. The only event even approaching a riot came at the Music Hall, where the transmission broke down after the 14th round. People were standing on their chairs, throwing things and yelling, "Fuck Boston...
...first-class seat though he held a coach ticket. When he stops at a bar, Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth National Bank personally expedites Calley's transactions. One day Calley presented his check in a Gatlinburg, Tenn., bank...