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Thus began the remarkable sealift. In Miami, boat stores quickly sold out of maps of the waters around Cuba. "We're selling anything that floats," said Oscar Rodriguez, manager of B & F marine store. "People are buying lifesavers, lamps, rope-anything, just as long as they need it on a trip to Cuba." Cars with boat trailers clogged the narrow two-lane road from the Florida mainland to Key West; some bore license plates from states as far away as New York. Drowsy Key West, just entering its off-season slumber, bucked to life as drivers steered their bulky...
...game looked clinched when Harvard scored two more in the top of the eighth. With one out, Bingham walked and went around to third on a single by Farrell (3 for 3 on the day with a stolen base). After another base on balls, Blood delivered a clutch rope to right to put the Crimson...
...blindness that they found it difficult to believe the rest of the world could see. Recalls Wilson: "A blind farmer taught me how to plant grain along a straight piece of bamboo. Jean accompanied the blind women with their water buckets as they felt their way along the hemp rope from the well...
Clearly, Michael Arlen specializes in the give-them-enough-rope-to-hang-themselves thing. As a writer for The New Yorker, he has had good models, not the least of which was the subtly lethal journalism of Lillian Ross, who once dismantled Hollywood with her classic Picture. Arlen has more benign intentions toward Madison Avenue. Throughout, he keeps a civil tongue in his cheek; Thirty Seconds derives its effects from self-revealing chatter and serendipitous comedy. A production conference deals with choosing among camels, llamas and kangaroos. Then comes the grandmother problem. "It seems to me," says one executive...
...University concludes: "The experience of so many men in their moments of religious vision corroborates what nature and history show to be quite likely-that there is a God who made and sustains man and the universe." Basil Mitchell, a philosopher of religion at Oxford, advocates a "many-stranded rope of reason" like that employed by historians or scientists to develop the best explanation of evidence. Among his strands: individuals' experience of a mysterious "other" outside nature, the simple faith of believers and "cosmic awe" in encountering unusually saintly persons...