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...fact, the most plausible representation of a single working woman (only a male chauvinist would use the terms bachelor and girl to refer to a mature woman) is someone who is trim, well groomed and stylishly dressed−much like Mary Tyler Moore herself...
...therefore with some dismay that I returned to Boston this fall to find that the MBTA bosses have ruined Park Street station. It wasn't that they remodeled it into one of those sterile, tiled waiting stops like one finds at Copley or Prudential. Nor did they trim it in gaudy patriotism, as they did at Government Center. And they didn't close down the fruit and flower stand. Instead, over the summer months, the MBTA has prostituted the character of the old Park Street complex by injecting one of the most pernicious elements of 20th Century Americana -- Muzak...
...Trim the Trees
Officially approved axles have frequently been altered, said Lange, and trim has been added for the sake of ballast. The customary limit on construction costs is $75, but Lange once had an offer from a professional car builder at $2,500. As for the rule that the boys must build their own cars, Lange said, "It is common knowledge that it is next to impossible for any eleven-year-old boy or girl to build a racer that...
Aquino, who was charged with illegal possession of firearms, murder, and plotting subversion with Maoist rebels, was not exaggerating; if convicted, he could have been sentenced to execution or life imprisonment. Despite having spent eleven months in prison since his arrest, Aquino looked trim and confident when he took his place in the dock of the courtroom, a converted army lecture hall in Manila's Fort Bonifacio. Instead of trying to answer the specific charges, however, he shrewdly grabbed every opportunity to denounce the proceeding itself as "an unconscionable mockery," clearly aiming his remarks at the 200 newsmen...