Word: supportively
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Married. Strom Thurmond, 66, U.S. Senator and former Governor of South Carolina, who rallied Southern support for Richard Nixon in last year's presidential election; and Nancy Moore, 22, a blue-eyed brunette beauty (Miss South Carolina of 1965), who met the Senator two summers ago while working in his Washington office; he for the second time; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Aiken...
...fast trains, like jet planes, cost more than the older and slower equipment that they will replace. But they can more than pay their way-provided that travelers support them at the ticket window. How many will? A study by Arthur D. Little Inc. estimates that on trains restricted to speeds under 120 m.p.h., rail passenger traffic would rise 6% on the New York-Boston run and only 1 % on the New YorkWashington run. If the speed limit were raised to 150 m.p.h., however, the number of passengers would jump 65% on the former and 18% on the latter...
...Glut. Mansholt has called for an immediate attack on Europe's agricultural surpluses, particularly of sugar and dairy products. The glut of butter, for example, amounts to 400,000 tons, and is known among Germans as the Butterberg (butter mountain). Mansholt wants to cut the butter support price-now 790 a Ib.-by 33%. He also advocates reducing dairy herds by 500,000 heads by paying farmers $300 for every cow they slaughter, a proposal reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's decision during the Depression to slaughter baby pigs as a way of both feeding the hungry and trimming...
...spring holds less flamboyant promises, as well. John Cheever has finished Bullet Park, a chronicle of fathers and sons and the communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming...
Olsen often loads his incidents-and his sentences-with more detail than they can support, and a certain awkwardness results: " 'How are your wounds?' Marie Tiviroli, the golden-haired princess of Steccola, said when she awakened in the abandoned charcoal hut between Cadotto and her home." But when the material is treated simply, it embeds itself in the reader's imagination. For example, in Olsen's handling of the postman, who thought the best thing to do under the circumstances was to walk his usual route burdened with letters for the dead. Or his description...