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...King James Bible is full of baraka, according to Graves, who has co-authored his own quirky version of Holy Scripture, The Nazarene Gospel Restored. "In Britain today this ancient baraka, and that of a few unrestored churches and cathedrals, keeps the flickering candle of faith alight." he explained. "Yet, in the name of progress, various ecclesiastical bodies are now trying to supplant the King James version with the New English Bible, a translation carefully purged of all baraka. Though it has sold in advance by the million, the verdict of the countryside is: 'We don't like this book...
...Bettors so pressured steamboat captains to race one another that passengers bribed, pleaded and fought for berths farthest away from the boilers. "Bet-a-Million" Gates, who would bet on anything, used to moisten a lump of sugar and bet $1,000 a fly on how many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone, a madman at gambling, drew the line only at the stock market. Said he: "It's a racket...
...less a single country than an archipelago of small, lush river valleys, cut off from each other by sharp mountains and limestone plateaus where roam the elephant, tiger and gaur. In winter, the hills of Laos are alight with opium poppies, and in summer the floods brought by the monsoon rains lap under the stilted houses and over the 500 miles of meandering dirt roads. Years ago, someone built a railroad station in Savannakhet, but never got around to building a railroad. The Me kong River, crashing down from a canyon in China's Yunnan province, then slowed...
...November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to ordinary people and set the island alight with a curious kind of spontaneous, uncoordinated, often futile combustion. So wide and so fast did it spread that the exile leaders plotting against Castro in Miami and Manhattan lagged far behind...
...case Red's stomach suffers one of its frequent reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, whether he is Clem Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...