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...microphone with a cheerful rejoinder: "I just want to say I had something to do with it too." Indeed he had. Political nepotism - aboveboard, unashamed and unabashed - was in fashion again. In Massachusetts, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill III, the 30-year-old son of House Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neill, went from the state legislature (and a seat once held by his father) to become the commonwealth's Lieutenant Governor. In Connecticut, Christopher Dodd, 30, son of the late Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd, garnered a seat in Congress. Bruce Smathers, 31, son of onetime Democratic Senator...
Green, soggy and buzzing with flies, the state of Tabasco at the southeastern tip of Mexico has had some modest local fame as an oil region for decades. Now it has suddenly become the center of the most exciting mystery story in world petroleum. By drilling deeper than ever before-as far as three miles into the geological subbasement-Mexican engineers have found a much bigger reservoir of oil than anyone had suspected was there, a subterranean lake of petroleum three or four miles wide and perhaps up to 30 miles long...
...instance, that the formation of hot and cold patches in specific parts of the Pacific appears to be followed by colder-than-normal winters in the Eastern U.S. and warmer-than-normal winters in the West. If enough patterns of that kind can be found, says Namias, they could tip off long-range trends...
James doesn't pay the performers and some place a tip jar above the piano, but a voluntary solicitation is little to ask for a nightful of music...
...every turn, Ford found himself fighting a two-front war. Clamping down hard to restrain the inflation threatening the financial fabric of the nation could tip the economy into a deep recession...