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...ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SELECTED LETTERS...
...military jargon for intelligence). He also used the epistolary form to procrastinate: "Such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something." It is estimated that he wrote about 6,000 letters. Carlos Baker vetted 2,500 pieces of correspondence for his biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969). As editor, he has selected nearly 600 moveable treats, from World War I until two weeks before Hemingway's suicide...
...Ernest G. Pihl Arlington, Mass...
...When South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, moved the next day to chop $7 billion out of the $22 billion in cost-of-living increases likely next year, he lost by eight votes. The splintered Democrats could not prevent the Republicans from cutting Medicaid and unemployment compensation and other social programs $200 million more than Reagan had requested, and all but four went along with a move by Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum to lessen a cut in the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank, a step that benefits big corporations...
Terror in Birmingham. Ernest Nunnally, 80, a retired refrigeration mechanic, and his wife Perry, 76, both white, were sitting in their 57-year-old house in a blue-collar neighborhood of Birmingham when two young white men pounded on their door. "You come out here," one said to Nunnally. "We don't want the woman. We want you." Peering out, Nunnally thought he saw one of the men holding a rope or chain. As they pulled on the door, breaking its bolt, Nunnally grabbed a gun and fired through a curtained door window...