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Lillian Hellman locks the tyrants and their victims into one family and plants it in a small Southern town. Regina and her brother Ben and Oscar, the nucleus of the family, vie among themselves for the position of Chief of the Wealth--struggling at the same time to keep their various relatives in line. Their disciplinary measures take effect. Everyone married and born to the trio is timid or ill when the lights...
...which supplies most of the napalm used in Vietnam. But the protest was irrelevant and inappropriate since a change in Dow's policies will not stop the war or even obstruct the use of napalm. If Dow suddenly refused to manufacture napalm, there are dozens of companies that would vie for the government contract to carry on production...
This line combination is fast enough to lead Vie Gatto around end, strong enough to enable Ric Zimmerman to sneak for five or ten yards when the defense gears for Gatto, and uniformly solid enough to protect a passer (Zimmerman has been harrassed only thrice thus far). And what makes Feula happy is the depth behind his starters: it is much stronger than in previous years...
...losses. So strong is the possibility of loss that brokers do not want to do business with women speculators because they "cry about it." In this specialized market, says University of Illinois Professor of Agricultural Economics T. A. Hieronymus, "speculation is a zero sum game in which speculators vie with each other for profits that they, in the aggregate, cannot achieve...
...Beatles are the ultimate symbols of the posh, respectable vie boheme. They live in the suburbs that the Rolling Stones Knock in their songs. They have never dropped out from society. They have never had to slum it to gain a sly, detached, enlightening line of sight on the status quo. They are idols to the hippies, prophets to the establishment, and fetishes to the teeny-boppers...