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Hoddy put Bomber on a diet and set himself to winning the eagle's respect. At night the trainer would sleep in an easy chair, the bird on his arm. During the day, slowly, using meat as the incentive, he taught Bomber...
...Little Mermaid in the city's harbor. Twenty springs earlier, this winsome lass had lost her head to vandals. On this summer evening, Per and Mike lost theirs. In the dead of night, the two boys stole up on the sculpture and sawed off her right arm...
...sober light of morning, the boys began to wish they had never tried their puckish prank. Whenever Per put his rucksack down, the arm inside made such a resounding clunk that his companions took to teasing him. Per, they said, must be the vandal who had alarmed the city's police force. And so that very night, the sheepish boys aroused a drowsy policeman and placed the severed limb before him. Before Per and Mike can live happily ever after, they may have to pay for the mermaid's repair. And that is likely to cost them...
...Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer a light for his Cohiba Cuban cigar in the souvenir photo above...
When I saw the corroded torch being removed from the arm of the Statue of Liberty, I felt that nature might be telling us what our politicians refuse to admit, that the deterioration of the great lady symbolizes the erosion that has taken place in our immigration policy [NATION, July 2]. Perhaps it would be in the best interest of America if we halted all immigration for two years, so our borders could be protected and our laws reconstructed, just as the torch is being rebuilt...