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...summer approaches, gas prices are changing vacation habits. The American Automobile Association says requests for travel planning are off 12.9% this year. "Gas prices make driving to Florida impossible," says Paul Polsky, a pharmacist in Troy, Mich. "We'll spend vacation in the state...
...list of Crimson victors in the meet reads something like a Homeric catalogue of the conquerors at Troy. The thinclads made a clean sweep in the field events, suffering a lone casualty in the high jump...
Another Yardling, Eric "Monster" Schuler, trailed Northeastern's Troy Billings for 13 laps in the 5000-meter race, then calmly left him in the dust to win in 14:25.4, a new meet record...
...most of all, citizens are angry at the Government. Says Troy, Mich., Housewife Marilyn Pallotta: "We've had to get cheaper cuts of meat and cut out snack goodies like potato chips. Well, I resent it when I cut and the Government doesn't." Cassie Marsh, a Detroit secretary and wife of a retired insurance agent, complains that Government bureaucrats "keep getting more raises, adding more and more people and getting fancier offices. You never hear of them cutting back." For many voters the economic mess is overshadowing all other U.S. problems. Says Rick Osban, service manager...
...soon as he knew that Troy had fallen, Polymestor murdered the boy and took the gold. Unknown to him, the sea-rotted corpse has drifted to shore and is dumped before Hecuba's gaze. She is past weeping by now. She wants the gift of death, surcease from all sorrow. But she has a priority: vengeance. Before the final curtain, Polymestor lurches forward on all fours, his eye sockets craters of streaming blood. He utters the primal howl that punctuates these plays. It is the moment when all reason has toppled and the dogs of fate rend man with...