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...this is not enough. He is now negotiating to buy the fishing rights for a six-mile stretch of the famed Restigouche River in New Brunswick, where he hopes to set up a camp and catch the big Atlantic salmon that course up the stream each year. He can afford it: since Brunswick's stock has been on its steady climb, the 360,976 shares owned by him and his wife are worth over $25 million...
...produce some equally remarkable results." But the results are far from remarkable when Zen is exported overseas and seeded among Western intellectuals with an entirely different cultural background. "They tried hard to obey its command: 'Let your mind go and become like a ball in a mountain stream'; the result was a punctured tennis ball surrounded by garbage, bouncing down the current from a burst water main...
...Main Stream & Footnotes. With impressive endurance, both network staffs clung to the story through dawn and into daylight, remaining well made up and coherent, with Cronkite growing ever more debonair as fatigue mounted all about him. CBS finally quit at 7 a.m., continuing spot coverage an hour later, while NBC stuck it out until 7:30. By then, Brinkley grandly and unilaterally announced Kennedy's election ("NBC has just awarded him California"), and Dave Garroway, NBC's regular morning glory, took over...
...sense, the show had been an anticlimax; during nearly twelve hours of figures, Kennedy was seen not at all and Nixon only briefly. And yet, with its incomparable immediacy, TV not only gave the main stream of the returns as it widened between Democratic hope and Republican discouragement, but caught many of the better footnotes to the 1960 election...
...about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father and no bot sosstle...