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...Thomas Ryan, and her half brother, Matthew Bender. At one point, Mrs. Nixon suggested throwing all the names in the air and inviting the ones that landed faceup. After the invitations went out, the White House phone began ringing with calls from scores of chagrined friends ?and strangers???who claimed that their invitations had been lost in the mail...
MILLIONS of Americans in 1970 are gripped by an anxiety that is not caused by war, inflation or recession ?important as those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers???armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
...Butte the arrival of the strangers???financiers, lawyers, rail-roaders?will prepare for the opening of perhaps the greatest auction sale in history, the knocking down, under the hammer of a U. S. special master, of the $750,000,000 St. Paul system, the system which stretches from a network of roads anastomosing over Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois, then in a thin line over Montana, Idaho and Washington to Puget Sound?11,000 miles of trackage...
...Society is a Christ-like agency for the troubles of voyagers, especially children, foreigners, young girls, women and feeble-mindeds. Welcoming them, seeing that they get to their destinations safely, that they are returned home promptly if fugitive, that they are properly housed if they are to remain among strangers??? such are the society's functions...
Cecil had died in San Antonio? Bee had passed through much, including an unhappy love-affair. She and Guy met almost as strangers??? but he knew from the first moment that he could never be happy with anybody else. So he told the dessicated Dessie that all was off between them?and she went right out and married the man he had robbed...
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