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...CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR...
...first thing that strikes me about Richard Brautigan is foot Last month I read a book by him that was entiled A Confedereate General from Big Sur. This book has lots of good metaphors and similes in it. It is also quite funny, too. In one chapter, he even writes about this alligator who eats porkchops. I thought that was really amusing. The next book is called Trout Fishing in America. Isn't that a funny title for a book, especially since he even doesn'T write about trout fishing per se. signed, Stevie W. Stahler...
Most Los Angelenos have long since given up hope of beating the traffic snarls on the city's freeways. But here's one working girl has the system licked. Every morning, Kim Novak gallops down a bridle path alongside the Ventura Freeway aboard Big Sur, riding bareback ("I like feeling my horse under me-I can tell if he starts twitching and seems nervous") on her way to Warner Bros, studios. While alert drivers gawk, Kim turns into a side street that leads to the lot. There she tethers Big Sur, goes to star in The Great Bank...
...Helen Hayes narrates a documentary based on the works of the late Rachel Carson (The Sea Around Us, Silent Spring). Miss Hayes also reads excerpts from The Sense of Wonder and Edge of the Sea as cameras range from the rocky coast of Maine to California's Big Sur...
This year, however, the long-strong trade surplus has shriveled. In March, May and June, the U.S. actually ran trade deficits, which cut the overall sur plus for the first six months of the year to a mere $100 million...