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...suggest the U.S. Government stop helping the Kremlin regime in its repressive actions by selling wheat to the U.S.S.R. Without food in the markets, more Soviet citizens might decide the iron claw of Communism isn't so nice and decide to do something about...
...unsuccessful suicide pact last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...
...President may avoid reporters' questions for a time, but events claw at him 24 hours a day. There is no escape. "The whole damned world ends up on the White House threshold," sighed a Ford aide last week. At about that moment Ford was down in the basement, sleeve rolled up, getting his swine-flu shot to demonstrate it was safe. Three elderly people had died in Pennsylvania after receiving the shot, and doubts about the program were immediately directed at the White House. HEW Secretary David Mathews flagged the President's Washington staff, which informed the campaigning...
Untold fortunes are dribbled away on fringe gimmickry. Samples: Kingaroo Practice Pouches that carry eight tennis balls at the player's waist; Volley-Hi, the taller tennis-ball basket stand; GRABIT, a tiny claw set on the racquet butt for picking up single balls without bending; Lobster, one of the many mechanical tennis partners able to shoot practice balls at you every 3% seconds. Stores bulge with any or all of the several hundred tennis books now in print. (Sample title: How to Increase Your Net Value). Alluring fashion ads offer raiment ranging from the new see-through tennis dresses...
Some say big time wrestling is fake, but as any half serious student of the sport can tell you, it is highly scientific. Many holds, such as Tarzan Tyler's atomic skullcrusher and the Mongolian Stompers' "claw", rely on the findings of the likes of Einstein. Others, such as George The Animal Steel's heart stopper, could not be applied without an intimate knowledge of biology. Although this is a little known fact, many former astronauts--who are among the smartest and most scientific men in America--are now professional wrestlers under assumed names...