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...last week's championship, a crowd of 700 jammed the Windsor Ballroom, and ABC-TV was on hand to catch every clicking carom. The prize money was $13,000. Nobody was taking it lightly, least of all an ex-butcher from Minersville, Pa., named Joe Balsis. "My wife and kids have a nasty habit," said Balsis, 42. "They...
...poolroom owner, Joe learned the game at four, won the junior world championship at 12, the armed-services title at 23. Then he bought a butcher shop, did not touch a cue again for 17 years. Two years ago he broke out of retirement, took a job managing a billiard parlor in Jackson Heights, N.Y. "I saw the way the game was growing," he says, "and I decided to try again." Last month he ran a record 150 straight balls in a tournament at Burbank, Calif., and last week he won eight games in a row before losing...
...leaders of Russia, sneered the Chinese, were "selling horse meat as beefsteak, displaying a lamb's head while actually selling fillet of dog." In Mao Tse-tung's somewhat mixed-up butcher-shop imagery, that meant that the Red meat of true Marxist-Leninism was still being supplanted by goulash a la Khrushchev...
...Christians. The Y goes out of its way to respect Jewish customs. Its restaurant is closed only one day a year, Yom Kippur, and bar mitzvahs are regularly reported in the monthly bulletin. Although the Moslem chef does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...
...Another butcher was Dick Dorso, who was the Executive Vice President in Charge of Programming at United Artists Television. Dorso considered himself the world's foremost authority on pilot films, according to Miller, and he had a standard lecture about them which begins: "In the first 30 seconds the pilot should go like this, 'Fifty thousand murderous Berbers are headed toward Cairo, and only you, Dick Daring, can stop them.' " Dorso, according to Miller, repeatedly bragged that he had been successfully psychoanalyzed and did not need to be loved. Reacting to a fresh version of Miller...