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Dudley House: Seaman P Malin, William H. Chafe, Brian L. Villa, Ernest C. Black, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Robert C. Twombly, Gregory G. Tallas...
...delighted Bedouin maidens, thus delighting their powerful tribal fathers as well. Since he is allowed only four official wives by the Koran, the King scrupulously divorced one old wife before each new marriage, pensioning her off at $2,500 a month. Such heavy alimony payments made the King chafe all the more at his Feisal-imposed personal budget of only $30 million a year...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but they prefigure the Alexandria novels. So does the fetid brilliance of the passages in which
...headliner: the low-slung car is operated on a shoestring. But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging-and beating-the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the ultimate competition for lean speed machines that can chafe off rubber in skidding turns, accelerate to 190 m.p.h. on the straightaways...
Batista has almost no enthusiastic support among Cubans outside the government; Castro, by contrast, gets ardent backing from students, professional classes who chafe at the indignities and corruption of dictatorship, and the political left. But the Cuban masses refuse the danger and cost of active support for Castro and, by abstaining, line up for Batista. The eventual solution for divided Cuba is no more foreseeable than that of another violence-torn island-far-off Cyprus...