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...like a scene out of a Graham Greene novel: a Central-American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer...
...Massachusetts Attorney General's office took Bic's ice cream parlor to court, alleging that store employees were calling their ice cream "homemade" even though it was manufactured at Brigham's Arlington factory--and even though.Bic's pina colada ice cream was identical to Brigham's natural pineapple coconut...
...know, in the water, grabbing for wood, grabbing for anything. It was dark and under water. Afterward there were no more houses. Everything's gone. My brother's gone." Other survivors told of escaping the waves by running to the hillsides or clinging to coconut trees. One woman told of seeing her father swept out to sea, then swept back in again alive with the next wave...
...been at it again. Last month in Rolling Stone, he gave "an endorsement, with fear and loathing," to Jimmy Carter. The article takes a long time to get under way, for as he writes, his radio is describing a Cuban sought for wantonly castrating dogs in Coconut Grove, Fla. ("This is, after all, another election year, and almost everyone I talk to seems to feel we are headed for strangeness of one sort or another.") Thompson is at first judicious about this strangeness ("The evidence points both ways"), but not for long: "Jesus Christ! I'm not sure...
...source of foreign exchange, the President is determined that the Seychelles will not become "a nation of waiters." Says Mancham: "We have learned our lesson from the overcommercialization and human pollution that have spoiled much of Tahiti and the Caribbean. Here, no hotel will be built higher than a coconut palm." Viewed from such modest heights, the future of the independent Seychellois may indeed be cause for rejoicing...