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...month and had saved about $5,000 despite supporting a wife and seven children. Three weeks after being laid off, he put down all of his savings, plus about $ 13,000 borrowed from his father, and opened a franchised Tastee Freez stand. "I am working my butt off," he says about his 16-hour days and seven-day weeks. Jimenez went into business for himself because he did not want to leave the Downey area. "I had four or five offers, but they were all outside the state." He has a mortgage, but can just meet the payments...
...across the table tried to butt into the conversation, but his girlfriend, a Brooklyn nurse, kicked him in the shins, saying, "Shut up, Mark, don't you know when to shut up?" And he learned. George Tipton, another member of the tribe and a guy with the kind of open honesty you can never forget, began speaking in quiet earnest tones...
...Uncle Sam." Mr. Sammler's planet is perhaps not the planet Sammler would have chosen. Sammler is a Polish Jew by birth and persecution, one-eyed by blow of a gun butt, a chance survivor of a Nazi mass burial, an alumnus of a guerrilla band. Earlier, during a period of happiness and snug snobbery, he was a journalist in London, a member of the Bloomsbury literary set. Now he is old, a friend and pensioner of his middle-aged nephew, a wealthy New York gynecologist named Gruner. He is tall, dried, durable, with a floppy great...
...recent Gallup poll on men most admired by Americans showed Agnew an unprecedented No. 3, after Nixon and Billy Graham. He is still the butt of jokes at chic Washington cocktail parties, but over at the White House, the sly little Agnew jokes so popular among staffers six months ago are no longer heard. The Veep's picture, rarely in evidence at first, now shares the walls of the basement corridor with Nixon...
...face of it would seem impossible. He shows his versatility in the second act as a sniveling aspirant to the judgeship, the pathetic nephew of the Fat Prince (Harvey Cushing). Cushing comes across with a very funny performance in his own right as a Mikado-like royal butt-licker/petty intriguer...