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...blows as best he could, Garcia at last reached a couple of mounted policemen and shouted, over and over again, "Can you protect this girl?" The cops did nothing, and the mob closed in again, chanting obscenities, pummeling the newsman and clawing at the girl. Garcia managed to drag the girl another 30 yds. or so along the street before the mob stopped them. There seemed no escape, but at that moment a black car rolled up and the crowd fell back, afraid that more responsive police had arrived. The driver turned out to be a hospital official rather than...
With French frugality, the judges will take several weeks to decide whether Bousgarbiès' injury is worth 1 franc. Appeals may drag on for a year. Despite the general levity, though, Bousgarbiès has received hundreds of letters from French patriots who seem just as mad as Americans would be at a TV bike race between Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis...
...meaning the profit motive, in "overcoming the lag of agricultural production." In an indirect slap at Chinese collectivization, Brezhnev announced the removal of "unfounded restrictions" on private farming-"the plots of land worked by farmers, factory and office workers"-restrictions that Brezhnev even more than Khrushchev realizes are a drag on Soviet output...
...heroic and historic proportions. In this, Ken Keating finds himself in the same dilemma as Republican candidates in a score of other states. For as Election Year 1964 nears its end, the big political question is less whether Barry will win or lose than how many Republicans he will drag to defeat...
Last Exit is a series of six stories, loosely linked by shared characters and unremitting violence, to make up a novel about the waterfront slums of Brooklyn. In this book all the ordinary four-letter words are for the little children, while grownups employ a more esoteric vocabulary where drag means transvestite clothing, silks are women's underpants worn by men, a John is a male prostitute's male customer, and rough-trade is that same prostitute's brutal boy friend...