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...complex. He is an islander but not a seafarer. He is loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral or wedding...
...horrified Britons watched freshly severed heads-garnished with all manner of delicacies, sometimes with a lighted cigar stuck between their teeth, swing gently through the air at native ceremonies. The Company, deciding that British stockholders could not be expected to underwrite that sort of thing, nearly managed to stamp out the custom...
...plane was a strange sight. Its 230-ft. wing (v. 141 feet for the 6-29) was set halfway back in the 163-ft., cigar-shaped fuselage. In the leading edge of the wing, where conventional planes have their propellers, XB-36 had only narrow, mouthlike air intakes for the six Pratt & Whitney 3,000-h.p. engines. They drive three-bladed propellers on the wing's trailing edge...
...silk handkerchief. The Italian seems to be a friendly, good-humored fellow. All Farkas wants is the friendly, good-humored world he has always known. The Italian reminds him that such a world no longer exists, that for some people it never existed. Farkas shrugs his shoulders, smokes his cigar, drinks the rich local red wine...
Smoke-Cured. In Manhattan, John Sforza, 19, strolled along Fifth Avenue, suddenly turned a corpselike hue, collapsed, was rushed to a hospital. Diagnosis: cigar-his first...