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...novel begins in typical Ludlum fashion. Joel Converse (read haunted protagonist with a conscience), a Vietnam vet turned prominent international lawyer, is called by a friend from the past. The friend tells him of a sinister plot by retired but fanatical and influential generals to take over the world. They've got money, brains and connections everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer...
Your Essay on euphemisms [Jan. 9] mainly took to task government officials who deal in doubletalk. But now even veterinarians are getting into the act. NEUTER IS NEATER said the poster in the vet's office. Neuter merely sounds negative, whereas castration implies something final. We decided that we would have our dog neutered...
...nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with his old Nam flamethrower. "You attract animals...
...fractured skull, the policy covered $200 of its $354 hospital bill. Jober's owners, Lou and Fran Bruno of Costa Mesa, Calif., admit they would otherwise have had second thoughts about having the expensive treatment. Said Bruno: "We were so happy to be able to tell the vet to go ahead and do what he could...
...been "into butterflies" since childhood. She first began her journey into their winged world during graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. She had been interested in entomology as an undergraduate at Smith, and decided to pursue her inclination to research after realizing that the life of a vet or an M.D. was not for her. She solidified her interest in lepidoptera during grad school where she could do field work on the Baltimore checkerspots...