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...nearby military base means a box-office bonanza. But not to Delbert Kinsel, proprietor of the Skyborn Cruise-In at Fairborn, Ohio. Every time a jet from busy Wright-Patterson Air Force Base howled overhead, it drowned out the sound track and rattled the patrons' teeth. To no avail, Kinsel asked the base commander to keep his planes on the ground at night. Once, in desperation, he even sent season passes to all Wright-Patterson pilots, innocently assuming that they would rather see a movie than fly their assigned missions...
Uchimura prayed to his Shinto gods to protect him from becoming a Christian, but to no avail. He was converted, and with six friends he formed a congregation. They met in a dormitory room, preached from a flour barrel, and rotated the office of preacher among them...
...past, Nationalists had called the unnerving ladies rude names ("foolish virgins," "weeping Winnies") to no avail. This time Strydom ordered his Cabinet ministers to ignore them. A dozen women entered Parliament itself, and at a signal put on their black sashes, in mourning for South Africa's constitution. An usher demanded that they remove the sashes. They complied, then calmly took black artificial roses from their handbags and pinned them to their dresses. The usher demanded that these be removed too, but the sergeant at arms nervously ruled that the black flowers could be worn. The women knew their...
...itching] were only temporary and would subside. After a week of these distressing symptoms, they would be given some of the routine pectate preparations and more reassurance. By the end of the third week after having been starved, given anti- spasmodics and various internal and external medications to no avail, they sought the aid of the gastroenterologist...
...testified the prisoner. "He was my guest, that's all." Billa's lawyer entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where liberté, égalité and fraternité are only words on official documents...