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...girls' common room in Weld 42 is colorful and fully decorated. Besides the couch, the girls have a comfortable white chair. Chili and cactus lights are strung across the ceiling. Pillows, posters and fabrics are scattered all around; on one wall is an enormous Dirty Dancing poster with everything but the title in French. Opposite the poster are pictures of male stars plastered on closet doors--the "wall of beauty," they call...
...another step and need to be airlifted out. Two well-fed American girls in nice clothes, both ambulatory. One of them sobs in a well-practiced way, and if you weren't here to see her, you'd think she had crawled for 10 miles through cactus dragging a broken leg behind her. She cries out, "But my dad will pay for it!" They beg. Please, please, please...
...Gabby Hayes-Cactus Jack: A reasonably plausible geezer, older than the presidential candidate - comparable to what you have when you put one of your slightly balding tires in the trunk as a spare. Sixty-eight-year-old Pete Domenici of New Mexico has been mentioned as a possible George Bush spare, for example. Truman did it with Alben Barkley...
Does the vice presidential part of the ticket really matter? Franklin Roosevelt chose his vice presidents for reasons of practical politics, with an (ultimately misplaced) confidence in his own immortality. Thus John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner signed on because F.D.R. needed the Texas delegation's votes at the 1932 convention. (Garner turned into an irascibly seditious anti-Roosevelt; at cabinet meetings, Roosevelt would say, "We can talk today - the Vice President isn't here." He ran against Roosevelt in the 1940 convention and was replaced by Henry Wallace...
...left bleeding to death after he and a companion approached a rancher near Bracketville, Texas, pleading for a drink of water. Near the Arizona border town of Sasabe, Miguel Angel Palafox, 20, had eluded the border patrol on May 21 and was heading north through hills covered with saguaro cactus--his dream was to reach Phoenix--when he was spotted by two horsemen dressed in black.One of them pulled out a rifle and shot Palafox in the neck. The youth wrapped his shirt around the wound and crawled back to Mexico in 115[degree]F heat. "I thought...