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...afternoon turns cold, Neddy tires, and beyond the difficult portage of Route 424 he begins to see odd un-familiarities that are not on his mental map. The lawns of friends are weed-grown; for-sale signs appear. There is another pool party, but the hostess, who is a social inferior, snubs him. Someone offers a word of sympathy for Neddy's financial troubles, and Neddy, vaguely uneasy, cannot recall that he has any. Chilled, and more tired than seems reasonable, he doggedly swims the last leg of his trip and hurries home to his wife and four tennis...
...Those students were admitted on the basis of grades and test scores, and they will pass or fail on the same basis. The student does not "demand facts, facts, facts." His instructor demands them, neatly played back from a term's subject matter. Let the deans weed their own gardens before looking across the fence...
Council leaders believe that the bishops have had enough time to impress their flocks back home with set speeches. This fall, prelates must submit copies of their talks five days ahead of time, thereby allowing the four council moderators to weed out repetitions. More over, six of the schemata - on the Eastern churches, missionary activity, priests, seminaries, schools, and the religious - will be put to the bishops as take-it-or-leave-it propositions without debate...
...time Perón was deposed in 1955, the landowners were reeling; with far less land and fewer gauchos, they had to become ranchers again. Strange terms like fertilizers, crop rotation, weed killers and permanent pastures crept into the pampas vocabulary...
...Norwich, Conn., gas station. Battery checked? Oil? Windshield wiped? And wiped. And wiped. And wiped. Seems the young lady driver had on one of those new topless swimsuits, and while Yo-Yos and Hula-Hoops were fine for kids, this year's midsummer madness does absolutely nothing to weed the men from the boys. Policemen, politicians, churchmen all had their views, from the Tel Aviv cop who swore that "no nice Israeli girl would wear them" (25 suits had just hopped off local store racks) to Acapulco's mayor, who announced that if they turned...