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...Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband of a belly dancer whose abdomen Ricketts had impugned challenged the columnist to a duel; Ricketts escaped the field of honor by inviting his prospective adversary to even the score by insulting Mrs. Ricketts...
...even in small towns; one of the best dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn. The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen. He can offer nine Turkish girls, plans to import at least 15 more. But a great many of the dancers are more or less native. Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across...
Nearly five hours later-at 8 a.m.-Adele Mailer checked into a downtown hospital with critical wounds in her abdomen, her back and near her heart. She had fallen on some broken glass, she gasped. The doctors were dubious, but postponed further questioning until after an emergency operation. By the time Adele Mailer had recovered enough to talk to detectives, her husband was in a television studio, taping an interview with Mike Wallace. He did indeed plan to run for mayor of New York next year, he admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would...
Entomologists have known since 1913 that an essence extracted from the abdomen tips of female gypsy moths would bring excited males from as far as half a mile away. For years they used this natural extract as bait in traps set out to locate colonies of the destructive moths, but the stuff was much too scarce for more than small-scale...
...Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs in order...