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...magnetic banana...
...there and only part of the nights and he ate-as the editorial business manager will discover-without dipping a finger in a fountain. In fact, he ate his way through such delights as soft-shelled crab on a bun, walnut fried Boston sole, partridge with grapes of Almeria, banana dogs, smoked eel of the river Tagus, Kambing Masak Bugis and A jam Panggang-and one ham on rye to go. Followed, on occasion, by antacid tablets...
...none was seriously hurt. A World War II baby flattop with seven Nazi U-boats to its credit, the New Orleans-based Card had arrived in Saigon with a load of new helicopters, had been scheduled to sail in five hours with a return cargo of bullet-riddled, scrapped "banana" transport choppers. Because of the Card's deep draft, her superstructure remained above water, and within hours she was being raised for repairs. While the incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only weeks...
...times Barbra Streisand bears an uncanny resemblance to Fanny Brice, but echoes of yesteryear are not the real point. For in her own right Streisand is the compleat clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on. Her face is a choppy sea of doubletalk, and her talk tries to take back what her face just said. She is an anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt...
...Thus, unlike neighboring Kenya and Uganda, Tanganyika has no basic conflicts between rival tribes or kingdoms, nor had it a large white-settler population to fight against independence and give rise to black Mau Mau-type terrorism. What whites there were mostly stuck to the cool, green coffee-and-banana highlands...