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...couple tried for a new start in Hot Springs. Roger Clinton, who had been selling Buicks in a town with little demand for new or expensive cars, joined his brother in a more prosperous dealership in the state's most affluent resort town. Virginia, meanwhile, got steadier work, better remunerated, as a nurse anesthetist. At first the Clintons lived in the country, in a house without indoor plumbing. Much has been made of Clinton's encounters with snakes in the outhouse, but he says, "We were not poor. A lot of rural Arkansas had no sewers back then." Billy...
...ragged, can be lacerating. The medium destroys sequence. Reading restores to the mind a stabilization of linear prose, a bit of the architecture of thought. First one sentence, then another, building paragraphs, whole pages, chapters, books, until eventually something like an attention span returns and perhaps a steadier regard for cause and effect. War (and television) shatters. Reading, thought reconstruct. The mind in reading is active, not passive-depressive...
...usual seven golfers teeing off--freshman Lou Body, who is number one or two on the team, was absent--the Crimson were only able to drop a single low score. Although Dave Miller finished second with a 75, the wide range of Crimson scores allowed the steadier Amherst squad to prevail...
...both the agony of defeat and the shame of abandonment -- and that ends in thwarted love and suicide -- seemed a risky business. Suppressing an impulse to premiere the show directly on Broadway, something he had never done, Mackintosh tried Miss Saigon in the West End, where theatergoing is a steadier habit and Vietnam guilt is not a local concern. He then relied on word of mouth among U.S. tourists to build up a buzz. By now it is a crescendo, enough to let him catapult Broadway's top single-show price to $100, a level previously limited to scalpers...
Salinas' economic drive has meant redefining some crucial relationships. By extending a friendly handshake to Bush, he has shifted away from prickly concerns about a gringo economic invasion and set U.S.-Mexican relations on a steadier course. Conversely, his approach to Mexico's perennial lawlessness has been firm, from tracking down top drug traffickers to jailing corrupt union and business leaders. Admirers who call Salinas' rapid-fire methods "world-class" say this President is a man in a hurry...