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...outraged by the attack. President Nixon sent a personal message of apology to France's Georges Pompidou, and at a Washington press conference Defense Secretary Melvin Laird explained that the jets-which were not carrying the new superaccurate, laser-guided "smart" bombs-had really been aiming at railroad yards three miles away. Disingenuously, Laird tried to suggest that the damage might have been caused by North Vietnamese antiaircraft missiles...
...Republic's history is dubious. But something is iridescently wrong there. This Administration's record will, one suspects, find its historical place in the rather short line of federal manipulation and political skulduggery, big and small, that burgeoned with Ulysses Grant. The gold, whisky and railroad manipulations in the unsuspecting Grant's time besmirched his reputation for a century and altered the politics of the day. Teapot Dome, which blew up after the death of Warren Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused...
...teen-age girl has begun behaving bizarrely and eating so much that she has gained almost 50 lbs. She is reacting to the fact that her family blames her for the death of her younger sister; floating downstream while clinging to the child, the teen-ager slammed into a railroad track, was injured and lost her grip on her sister...
Neighborhood Nine, an area bounded by Concord Ave., Mass Ave, and the old Boston & Maine railroad tracks, includes most of Radcliffe, the Botanic Gardens, the International Student Center and the Common...
Ostensibly, Torrents of Spring tells about the dramatic effects of the vernal equinox on the backwater town of Petrosky, Mich. Anderson's lapidary dialogue, his reverence for the little town, the railroad tracks, the "beanery" with its elderly waitress, even his anxious asides to the reader, are lampooned: "Spring was coming. Spring was in the air. (Author's note: This is the same day on which the story starts, back on page three...