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...villain but as savior. The factory, however sordid or boring, has legally limited hours and, customarily, provides a string of fringe benefits. "Adam Smith" points out in Supermoney: "Somebody who has spent 16 hours a day looking at the wrong end of an ox for sub-subsistence on a patch in Poland may not complain at all when he emigrates with a paper suitcase to a steel mill on the South Side of Chicago." The message is quite clear: in the history of American immigration there is but one story. It is told in different languages, but the ending...
...Harvard soccer team, given a chance to patch up its injury-riddled lineup at a result of Wednesday's rainout with Tufts, travels to Princeton, N.J today to face a punchless Tiger squad scrambling to avoid the Ivy cellar...
...grimaces and the boy's seeming impassivity the growing comprehension of the onlookers faces. And when we start to go downriver. Boorman's eye guiding Vilmos Szigmond's camera picks up the release of a smooth-skimming canoe when it catches the current, the disruptive churn of a sudden patch of rapids, the collected stillness of a stoned in pond...
...rods appear to defy the laws of matter and occupy two places at the same time; or one can put a finger into an apparently empty patch of air and feel it hammered by an invisible solid...
...rather than the driver. Fittipaldi has proved that he can win even with autos that lack a racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...