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...Corps center in nearby Pleasanton. To Center Director Steve Uslan, Painter is "uniquely suited" to his job. "His ability to draw kids out of their shells is quite remarkable." The happy father thought it was time to bring his son home. By then, though, the Bannisters had grown deeply fond of Mark; they resisted all requests for his return. Last June the Painters tried to retrieve the boy at his school in Ames. After being rebuffed by school officials, they filed a writ of habeas corpus in the county district court, which ordered that Mark be sent back...
...flickers were bad for her eyes. Last week Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, 63, turned up in San Francisco to pursue her old fascination. Her Grace announced that she wants to buy one authentic stagecoach, a covered wagon that had survived an Indian attack, a saloon door (swinging) and other fond wild West relics to install for English schoolchildren at a museum of Americana at Bath...
Author Bishop, a California freelance writer, cheerfully admits that his only credential as a liquor authority is a long and fond acquaintance with the stuff. Apparently, he also set out to touch off a Donnybrook in any roomful of serious or discriminating drinkers. For example, he argues that most drinkers are kidding themselves when they claim that they can taste the difference between competing brands of liquor. Moreover, though most people can taste the difference between Scotch and bourbon on the first drink, Bishop claims that most bourbon drinkers cannot distinguish between different types of bourbon (straight, charcoal-filtered, sour...
...fond of playing the "animal, vegetable, or mineral" game with history books. An animal is lively and generally fun, but it doesn't have much to do with the facts and tends to run away with itself. A vegetable book has firm factual roots that keep it from running around but at least it's alive. A mineral book is solid ground--sometimes rocky reading, but always right...
...people at large the Revolution and the Civil War were accompanied by only minor inconveniences when weighed against the glory and excitement of participating in the heroic struggle... When he did remember the human cost of the Revolution Lenin, following the example of Marx and Engels, was fond of the image of birth pains...