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Poets are fond of saying that life imitates art-but does it have to imitate television? The fact that it doesn't is perhaps the reason that 32-year-old Mark Fein last week was on trial for his life...
...equivalent amount in cash even if they had not worked any overtime. Ford would have none of this, and the strike was on. It immediately cut Ford's passenger car production by 16% , its truck output by 34%. Its continuance not only would threaten the industry's fond hopes to run up another record auto year, but could trigger the dampening reaction in the economy that economists have been fearing since the beginning of the labor negotiations-which have certainly turned out to be more difficult and unpleasant than anyone could have expected...
...Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but the tax on imported tea was left in force. By 1770, however, efforts to organize a boycott of the wicked brew had failed. The prosperous colonies had grown too fond of the beverage to give it up, enabling smugglers to carry on a thriving trade in untaxed Dutch...
...farm program has, of course, long been a national scandal, but no one yet has come up with a workable, politically viable solution. Farmers themselves are fond of talking about free enterprise-but they are even fonder of collecting subsidy checks, and they show their proclivities at the polls...
Curiously, he even manages to work Elizabeth Taylor into the story. It comes in the form of a fond description of the hero's sister. "When my mother died, she, my sister, had become my mother, and more mother to me than any mother could ever have been. I was immensely proud of her. I shone in the reflection of her green-eyed black-haired gypsy beauty . . . She was innocent and guileless and infinitely protectable. She was naive to the point of saintliness and wept a lot at the misery of others. She felt all tragedies except...