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Dried Fish. This is just the beginning of the profits he intends to wrest from the jungle. Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will...
Senate Majority Leader Johnson had scheduled the post-convention session as part of his pre-convention strategy for trying to wrest the presidential nomination away from Kennedy. Once Kennedy got the nomination and tabbed Johnson as his running mate, he had hopes of wringing political gains out of the session by pushing through vote-catching welfare measures. But Kennedy's political gains from the session came to zero: no housing bill, no aid-to-education bill, modest minimum-wage and medical-care bills quite unlike those he had advocated, no sign whatever of the farm bill he promised...
Sadistic & Sick. Less clear and distinctly alien is the rationale for Nunne's sadistic murders, all of which occur discreetly offstage. Novelist Wilson's argument is that crime is a thirst for freedom, a chance to wrest a heroic identity from a world of regimented boredom and blurring mediocrity. In a sick society, the superman becomes a monster. A trip to the morgue finally opens Gerard's eyes to the monstrosity of Nunne, but not before the reader has suffered much quasi-Nietzschean chatter to the effect that "if a man could kill all his illusions...
...Railroad, the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services group, and 50% of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Class B stock. Last week Wall Streeters were betting that Anita Young would place her considerable savvy and stockholding behind one or more of the high-powered outsiders who are eager to wrest control of Alleghany from Kirby...
Thus, there are only two Ivy games this Saturday afternoon. Brown and Columbia have extra-curricular activities at home. While the Bruins are a favorite to gain what may be their only win of the year--the R.I. State Championship--Columbia stands little chance to wrest a win from Holy Cross...