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Still smarting from the U.N. Security Council's refusal to censure Israel for last month's attack, Syria's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous warned that his country would no longer bother with complaints to the Security Council, would instead "reply to each Israel aggression mercilessly within the occupied [Israeli] area...
...tongue twister says that "a noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more." Human beings respond in more subjective ways. Living near the end of a jet runway, for example, does not bother airport employees nearly so much as airplane haters, whose complaints about noise rise sharply just after crashes. Typewriters may irritate nearby people, but typists need some clickety-clack for job-satisfaction; using a noiseless machine, says J. B. Priestley, is like "typing on a steak and kidney pudding...
...cannot possibly reach a curve before it breaks. He holds the bat at the very end, actually gripping the knob on the handle with the fingers of his right hand. He hardly ever gets a base on balls because he swings at practically everything; and he does not bother to study opposing pitchers, or even learn their names. "You never hit the pitcher," he shrugs, "just the pitch." Batting is all a matter of luck anyway. "You no lucky, you get no hits," he says. "You gotta be lucky...
...house on a ridge high over Coldwater Canyon near Hollywood. His major indulgence is a private tennis court, onto which he likes to coax name pros, who regularly clobber him. Otherwise, "Chuck" Heston, as friends call him, mostly stays inside doing calisthenics and culling scripts. It doesn't bother him to be called a square. "So," he says, "were Moses...
...economic progress was India's sole concern, we would not bother with Democracy but would rather model our government after General Motors," he said. "But for us Democracy is where the government officials must face the people periodically," and prove to them that they deserve their trust...