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...stock-market slides rumbled through Tokyo. The vision of thousands of auto workers out of money for Christmas landed with a thump on Ford's palace doorstep. The rebellious spirit in Congress shattered one day's sightseeing with the overriding of two vetoes. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's predictions of economic disaster made headlines in the Japan Times...
...floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping his thigh as he read your keen advice. Not even another bataca thump could make him stop laughing. He's just repressed. All the money I've invested in ropes, pulleys, electric gadgets and batacas, and George still doesn't think they have much to do with expressing affection. It burns...
...past two years, the reader of an American newspaper has been virtually assured of finding a Watergate-related story blazoned across the front page. But now the drumbeat of daily Watergate headlines has died away to a faint, uninsistent thump. Suddenly, there is no "news." Or, to put the matter another way, all the news that fits is in print. Local gripes now receive fullblown front-page treatment. Crime makes a comeback. Sports stories normally relegated to back pages jump startlingly forward. The merely eyecatching, the determinedly trivial and the yawning of a new era are now featured boldly. Says...
...trucks piled with returning refugees, stoves, bedrolls and furniture. Red-bereted military police struggled to bring order out of chaos, occasionally shooting their AK-47 automatic rifles into the air to get attention. Reminders of the October fighting were plentiful. Occasionally across the fertile plain came the echoing thump of detonating mines. A prairie fire, ignited by exploding ordnance, cast a gray pall over the land...
Most of Radcliffe's points were earned by Thal and Muscatine, the Cliffe's top two singles players. Conceding the singles to Princeton and to Yale's Lisa Rosenblum, the two combined forces to thump three opponents before bowing to a talented Princeton duo, 6-1, 6-0, in the doubles final...