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...justify calling me every other night around one in the morning to tell me what he expects of Charles [the candidate], on the basis of his own keen analysis of Austria before Dollfuss. The hours I've spent listening to that chucklehead outline a strategy which would be just swell if only Consolo [the incumbent governor] were Franz Josef!...I'd rather spend my time chewing the fat with One-Eyed Danny Geegan of the Police Athletic League. At least I'm sure we got his vote. For all I know charming Elli [the professor's wife] wrote...
Though he inherited an ocean of red ink, Lindsay has begun to restore the city's fiscal integrity with his new taxes. To balance a welfare-bloated budget of $4.5 billion -bigger than any other state budget except California's and destined to swell still more next year -he is pressing the state for as much as $150 million in new aid, has opened a Washington office so that New York can get a larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under...
...accommodate the extravaganza in the cramped former movie theater that the Boston Opera calls home, Set Designer Oliver Smith built ramps and platforms around the orchestra pit. To swell the chorus, 40 extras were enlisted from local gyms and off the street (qualifications: "6 ft. 2 in. and well built"). Everything worked, especially Caldwell's master stroke of costuming Moses and Aron identically, often pivoting them back to back to underscore the central conflict between the spiritual and material sides of man. A few patrons found the orgy scenes too shocking and tromped out; but Lewis and Gramm performed...
...appraised now. The degree to which the foundations of buildings have been weakened by the flood is not yet apparent nor will the damage to paintings and frescoes incurred by the change in humidity be known for many years. In addition, all wood panels, furniture, sculpture, and intarisa may swell unevenly and crack as a result of the saturated atmosphere or partial immersion. A piece which was touched only at the bottom by the moisture may split all the way to the top as a result of this uneven swelling, and much of the paint might chip off. Cheese cloth...
...years since, much has altered in Arkansas-all for the better. A ground swell of technological advance, already under way in the late '50s, has progressed to the point where industry now plays a major role in the economy, population is rising rather than shrinking, about 50% of the state's 2,000,000 people now live in cities and towns, and an estimated 30% of the population is accounted for by in-migration...