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...dictatorship. It is to his eternal credit that he gave his villain all the best lines, all the most telling arguments. Desire for absolute power may be a form of madness, but to turn Caligula into a raving maniac would have been to build a straw man and knock him down with a bulldozer...
Winthrop trails Kirkland despite first place finishes in touch football, cross country, basketball, and hockey. And a surprisingly strong showing by Adams House, up from a hopeless eighth-place finish last year, even knock the Puritans into third. Only 40 points behind Winthrop, Adams has already scored almost 400 more points than it had last year at this time...
...common-sense appraisal makes it patently apparent that neither Russia nor anyone else could launch an attack that would simultaneously knock out all 1,500 planes, 100 SAC bases, ships at sea, submarines, and 300-odd overseas bases, including rocket sites. If they are that good, neither twelve planes nor 120 planes will "save...
...with different names are remarkably similar. General Motors' Olds F85 and Buick Special both have the same body shell and almost the same motor; Ford's Falcon and Comet have the same engine; the Chrysler Valiant and Lancer are lookalikes. Many dealers not only battle competitors but knock cars made by the same manufacturer. Dodge puts out a "confidential" booklet for Lancer salesmen pointing out the good features of the Lancer and the bad ones of the Valiant-though both are made by Chrysler. Sample comparison: "Lancer; new styling inside and out. Valiant; last year's styling...
...becomes increasingly unconvincing. The priest himself suffers from all manner of physical and mental ills (he doubts his faith, and is ultimately a victim of cancer of the stomach), but his parish is sick beyond belief. A grieving countess follows him at a respectful distance; haggard crones put knock-out drops in his wine ("they only do it for fun," explains one of his less demented parishioners); and his nine-year-old communion class ignores the catechism to devise methods of tormenting the priest and his faith ("Why must they do this to ine?" is his only response). Why, indeed...