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When Leary feels his time is up, he says he will take a "suicide cocktail." But even at that, he's hedging his bets--he wants his body frozen by the Cryocare cryogenics lab for future resurrection. If he had to live his life all over again, would Leary have done anything differently? "Sure," he says, inebriated by the gas and, for some reason, baseball. "I've led the league as a human being over the last 30 years, but I've only batted one out of three. The other two times, I went up there, and probably shouldn...
...Harbor Air Service in Cheyenne. "A lot of pilots whose time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots, a possible mixture of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, icing and hail all at once. "I would have taxied up the runway and headed back," says "Red" Kelso of Cheyenne, a retired pilot with 52 years of flying experience. "There's no way I would have gone up in weather like that...
Bowen also comped the Lampoon during her first year at Harvard, and the two met second semester at a cocktail party. Bowen was on the staff by then, but Cohen was still comping...
Each of the houses then hosted receptions for juniors and their families. Most house masters opened up their residences for yesterday's cocktail parties...
These side-commentaries convey Fuentes' frustration with the situation around him as well as if he had been writing directly about them. His disgust for the Hollywood society is apparent, as is his confusion over why Diana submits to this artificial universe: "It all reminded me of... the gringo cocktail party, where no one deigns to concede more than two or three minutes to anyone, not the most fascinating stranger, not even one's oldest and dearest friend. Yes you're made of glass, they look right through you... All of this while balancing a drink in one hand...