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...himself in barbed wire, a sequence that is at first horrifying becomes tender and comic because these characters really breathe, bleed and smile. Fitzgerald even allows some of O'Connor's imagery to creep into the dialogue when Enoch describes a woman with "hair so thin it looked like ham gravy trickling over her skull...
...embassy and newspapers with telephoned pleas for capitulation. Implored Lovera, in one such call: "This is not a legal problem. This is a human problem that should be resolved in concordance with the law of God to preserve human life. We hostages are what is called in Caracas the ham in the sandwich...
...himself, with a twinkle in his eye, a good sense of humor, but very forceful and positive." That is the report of Armand Hammer, the New York City-born, Russian-speaking chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp., who spent nearly two hours chatting with the Soviet leader last week. Ham mer, who has met Brehznev many times, went to Moscow after learning that Occidental's phosphate sales to the U.S.S.R. might be embargoed by Washington. Said he: "I wanted to ask [the Soviets] not to retaliate by cutting off Russian ammonia shipments to the U.S." Somewhat to Hammer...
...ham and cheese sandwich costs $3.50 in Lake Placid, N.Y. But since you can't eat snow, you consume and the marathon begins. You consume Lake Placid, the village, buying the food and the buttons and the stickers and the hats and the scarves. Everything that is officially Olympic costs $5. Two very high students walk down Main Street shouting, "You're walking on an Official Olympic Sidewalk, that'll be $5 please," and everyone laughs with them, like theirs is a big in-joke. Laughter fills the streets all the time in Lake Placid...
...nature. Except when they are working in the fields (usually about three hours a day), the youths are dressed in blue uniforms with red kerchiefs and red berets, the standard garb of Cuba's own "young pioneers." The students are roused at 6 a.m., take breakfast (typically ham, bread and milk) in carefully ordered sittings at the school's mess hall. They are held responsible for the neatness of their dorms, which are crowded with double-decker bunks; each student has shelves by his bed to store books and clothing...