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...still eating steaks--who is anymore with meat worth its weight in gold, a death toll in cholestorol build up, much less a good dose of bad vibes in hostility content?--you can get them and find the type that eats them at Barney's (22 Boylston St.) and Buddy's Sirloin Pit (across from the Brattle Theater). The Wursthaus affects a slight German accent, fine for families who aren't liable to notice the pretensions because they're busy, if they're normal Wasps, fighting. The headwaiter doesn't like students much anyway. For Mexican food that can sear...
...Vietnamese dead were all Communist automatons bent on subverting liberty, and even if the American cause was initially just, the extent of the killing, the mounds of the dead, indicated that the government was pursuing a policy of moral obscenity. No political goals were worth such a toll in lives...
With machines pushing so many people out of jobs, it is comforting to learn that man can occasionally displace a machine. That is what has happened on the highways in Connecticut. Disturbed by bottlenecks at toll booths with exact-change lanes, the Connecticut department of transportation this month will scrap all toll-collecting machines and replace them with human attendants. On busy days, 300 to 350 cars an hour used to pass through the machine-tended lanes, while 600 to 650 autos moved through the lanes that were guarded by people-proving that the human hand can be quicker than...
...that is an oversimplified interpretation, but it is one reasonable view of that remarkable document. But could it be that this lonely man, who is now more walled off than ever, really is in such a state of helplessness, imagined or real? Maybe Watergate has taken more of a toll than we know...
Whatever the degrees of guilt in the scandal, Watergate is, of course, a tragedy for the men involved and for their families. As a friend of Jo Haldeman explained: "There is no way to measure the toll. She is about as strong as he is. She'll be all right. But it's a problem for the kids. There's no way around it at school." The Haldemans have four children. Jeanne Ehrlichman, a very private woman, said firmly: "I just know my husband is going to be proved innocent." Clutching a childhood Bible, Martha Mitchell attracted a press throng...