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...most ways, I grew up like other kids in the late '60s and '70s. I had pets, played Little League, owned library and baseball cards, listened to American Pie, and every few months I was treated to a Whopper with fries and a movie like Blazing Saddles or Animal House. But Mom drew the line at What's My Line...
What could cause a stock market crash? it's an intriguing question with no real answer, other than some kind of surprise. My bet is that it would take a whopper. The bull market is so strong that to send the Dow careening would take something truly out of this world. Here's how it might unfold...
...family, she reports). Lukins writes with the unforced authority of her affection for the U.S., which she crisscrossed 50 times to gather the 600 recipes here. United Airlines has just gone American and is serving 36,000 dishes a day from U.S.A. Cookbook. As porch reading, it's a whopper, but it would be hard to find a better culinary guide to the salad days of summer...
...ridiculous and unfounded--a claim for which neither Sack nor The Crimson could provide evidence. It would be too silly for me to quote my own published words "proving" that I do not hold such a view. Sack has also repeatedly made wild charges against me, such as the whopper that, over three years ago, I exposed the falsehoods of his book as part of some publishing plan for my recent book--as if one has anything to do with the other...
...that there is no proof of such a missile. NTSB experts say an optical illusion associated with a shooting flame from the initial spark may explain what he saw. Conspiracy theorists on the Internet and elsewhere, of course, know in their bones that the government is covering up a whopper of an explanation...