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...doesn't mean anything if you're called back, but you can't help thinking it does," Kinsley says. In his own essay Kinsley says he gently ribbed his religious background and discovered to his horror that a member of his committee was what he calls "a real holy-roller type." They brought Kinsley back, and the active church-goer asked him if he wished to retract his comment about religion. Kinsley says he was in rather a quandary, because he could not decide whether to make the man happy or stick by the reference, which, after all, he hadn...
...days, one of the nation's most storied families had oscillated between frustration and faith, resignation and hope. It was the kind of roller-coaster existence all relatives of kidnap victims must endure, but for the Randolph Hearsts, somehow, everything about the ordeal seemed more extreme...
Above are either T shirts or denim jackets, decorated with more tartan. Out in the audience, in Britain at least, are invariably several thousand girls dressed the same way. Says Manager Paton: "It's cheap, it's original, and any fan can dress like a Roller simply by sewing some strips of tartan on a shirt and cutting off the trouser leg at mid-calf." Right...
Last week in efforts to smooth out the roller coaster and placate critics. President Ford moved to regulate future U.S.-Russian grain deals. He dispatched a high-level negotiating team to Moscow to try to work out stable, long-term grain purchase agreements; the group is headed by Charles Robinson, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. To allow time for the negotiations, Ford also extended for a month, until Oct. 15, the moratorium imposed last month on additional grain sales by Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
...large women walks onto the empty concert stage. Before the audience has had a chance to quiet down, she begins to make strange animal-like noises. Shrieks and grants alternate with sung vowels and machine gun like repetitings of consents as her voice gyrates wildly like a deranged roller-coaster. Her mood and the accompanying facial contortions change every few seconds...