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...broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
...works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside his family. Says Mrs. Parr-Morley: "He lives more simply than most ordinary people. He's not at all like our Mr. Churchill...
...hunter knows at an early stage approximately where the tree is. To get a better fix, he moves his box, one or more times, closer to the supposed location. Usually, traffic on the beeline gets thicker & thicker as he nears the hive tree...
...real mystery was still not solved. Why should anyone bother to forge a piddling 254 ballots in overwhelmingly Democratic Bourbon County? Why should brilliant Ed Prichard, a man with a future, try to pull a clumsy fix that would give pause to the lowliest ward heeler...
This week, in four columns of type, the capital's sturdily independent La Prensa unofficially summarized the bill's purported highlights. According to La Prensa's version, the bill would: 1) set up a government registry for scientists, writers, painters, musicians and architects, and fix standards for their work; 2) set "cultural quotas" of space for Argentine material for newspapers, magazines, libraries and publishing houses...