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...electrician, the mother and the five-year-old boy are having problems. The boy has been kidnapped by the aliens, the mother is told by all her friends that her son probably fell in the river, and the electrician's wife has loaded the kids in the station wagon and gone to stay with her sister. In their mutual despair, the mother and the electrician find each other. Somehow, they know that the government is pulling everybody's leg about the toxic gases, and so they head off to Wyoming...
...campaign, she admits, was "amateurish, naive and trial by error." Starting far back, she bustled around the state in a Volvo station wagon, stressing the need for economic development and nuclear power, and backing the construction of a Trident submarine base?opposed by the environmentalists?on Puget Sound. She had plenty of energy, an air of bluff honesty that appealed to independents, and a new face. Startling the experts, she defeated Seattle's popular but overconfident Mayor Wes Uhlman, 42, in the primary and then beat Republican John Spellman, 50, the top official in Seattle's King County...
...They viciously dragged some of the students into the paddy wagon, including some who were just standing on the sidewalk shouting," she added...
There is some evidence that one goal of the present crackdown on dissent is to reassure the right-wing verkrampte (narrow-minded) members of Vorster's National Party. To foreigners, the gruff Prime Minister may seem to be nothing more than a formidable reactionary. "He travels in an ox wagon always one length behind the train of history," a ranking British official observed last year. But Vorster is a pragmatist by comparison with many of his Afrikaner colleagues in government and a very shrewd politician as well. Thus, the new constitution could be interpreted as a concession to white moderates...
...simply because books about it are no longer popular. To many, the big car remains an object of envious ad oration, and everywhere Americans still keep up with the Joneses. For their part, the Joneses seem to be going off on week end trips in a gas-guzzling station wagon at 65 m.p.h...