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...Stennis got out of his car shortly before 7:40 p.m. and reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled...
Nixon will keep mandatory controls on several enterprises that have a particularly strong grip on the American wallet. Hospitals and nursing homes can raise prices no more than an average 6% a year. Doctors and dentists can increase fees only an average of 2.5%. Major food processors will still have to get prior approval for price boosts, and grocers' markups will be closely regulated. Construction wage hikes must be cleared by the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee...
...volume of Swedenborg, issued in 1868, still damp, as if it had been left on some porch during a summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition of Ruskin's Unto This Last, small as a wallet, the cardboard covers exposed like a dilapidated wall; d'Annuzio's poems (1901), elegant in a spine of maroon ribbed leather; Edmund Gosse's life of Coventry Patmore, also a first edition; Arthur Symons' London: A Book of Aspects, "privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and his friends" in Minneapolis...
...went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into his wallet just before heading East on interstate 90 Champagne Chuck Yale 69 was going back to New England and this time be wasn't going to shell out any money to those obnoxious people from Cambridge...
...never been like this in the old days, when Champagne's roommate. Brian Dowling, had been running the Yale varsity. No one every took away Stewart's lunch money then. Champagne made a perfunctory check of his wallet, saw that everything was in order, and began humming something about marching down the field. This time, it would be different...