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...saloon's a wooden affair with a long, running mirror behind the bar, a couple of pool tables, and two poker tables in the rear. The dance hall is locked. Only a dozen people are in the joint. All are kids: a blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans who's loosing her battle for the shag-cut brown-haired, fishy-moustached, brown-oiled, flat...
...that is another story. Here and now, the Red Sox are in first place, four and a hall games ahead of the Yanks. The season is half over, and a bleachers cost a buck and a half. The subway costs a quarter, and Kansas City's in town the end of this week. Last season the Sox were soaring like this, and the Maine lobstermen who listen to the radio on their boats thought that that summer might be different. El Tiante was brilliant on the mound--the team was seven games in front on August 23. The nosedive came...
...declared spokesperson for the group. The ladies got more support from a friendly Lyon public, in the form of free food and drink, than from the government. State Secretary Giroud referred the problem to the Minister of the Interior. "Prostitution is a masculine phenomenon," she remarked in passing the buck. Father Antonin Béal, the parish priest, offered perhaps the most resourceful response to St.-Nizier's unlikely occupation forces. Timidly presenting himself in front of his captive audience, he delivered a sermonette on the redemption of Mary Magdalen...
...parties involved hold each other responsible for the crisis. Some doctors blame the increasing incidence of malpractice suits on patients' desire for a fast buck at the expense of physicians. Others lay the responsibility for the rise on ambulance-chasing lawyers, who have been forced out of automobile liability actions by the growing acceptance of no-fault insurance...
...felt worfully out of place. The seens was surround enough that no one had noticed my suit. I looked around and saw that people's hairlines were receding their faces were wrinkling up as they stood there. It took a few more doses of spirits (at a buck a shot) to bring reality back within certain acceptable tolerances...