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Including the potential to enrage the public. During the early stages of the U.S. 1 block, traffic was strung out for up to 19 miles, and resorts in the Keys began reporting a drop of as much as 40% in tourist business. Key West symbolically seceded from the Union, and local officials begged Washington to call a halt. The only change, however, has been less strict checking to eliminate most of the delay...
Meanwhile, freshman Jeff Musselman stymied Dartmouth until the fifth, when the Big Green strung together three straight hits to narrow the Crimson edge to 2 1 and knock Musselman out of the boy Harvard's Billy Doyle came in and relinquished in RBI single, tying the game, but the veteran held Dartmouth hitless the rest of the way to pick up his fourth win of the year...
...late afternoon at Canyon Ranch, "America's first total vacation/fitness resort." The sun slants across the roofs of the patio homes strung out across the desert, tinting the Santa Catalina Mountains, lengthening the shadows of the giant saguaro cacti...
...that sold in Chicago for $2.94 in 1920 dropped to $1 by 1929 and 30? by 1932. Such prices provoked desperation. In LeMars, Iowa, where Judge Charles Bradley was foreclosing a series of mortgages, a crowd of farmers kidnaped him from his courtroom, drove him into the countryside and strung him up until he nearly lost consciousness. Then they revived him, crowned him with a truck hubcap and forced him to his knees. "O Lord, I pray thee," the judge gasped, "do justice...
...setting becomes 20th century Florida--specifically 50 miles due east of Orlando, at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral. Orlando is an astronaut, of course; the queen is a high-strung debutante; the prince, an infantry soldier; the shepherdess, a funky beach-bunny; and the magician, a project supervisor at Mission Control...