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...different kind of quarry: the soothsayers, crystal-gazers, palmists and tea-leaf readers who gull money by the barrelful for telling people what the future will bring, and thereby are liable to prosecution as "disorderly persons." More surprising than the seedy collection of fakers and phonies, love potions and hex-chasers that the inspectors are turning up is the source of the current campaign: New York's astrologers, who complained that the racketeers and pseudo astrologers were giving them a bad name...
...through space in Mercury capsule No. 13, thirteen U.S. Senators gathered at 10:13 a.m. on Capitol Hill to give the ebullient astronaut a gold watch, all of whose numerals read 13 o'clock. Smashing a mirror to open the meeting, Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen tried to hex Glenn: "If you'll talk 13 seconds, we'll love you. If you talk 13 minutes, we'll wonder how you ever got in orbit. If you talk 13 hours, we'll be in orbit." Replied Glenn, with a double whammy: "I thought you were going...
When he fails, death is God's will. Mental illness is always rated as supernatural, and the "hex" must be taken off by prayer or some magic ritual. But because the brujos understand the Mexican-American psychology, they score higher than doctors in curing mental illness...
...Hex. The underlying story comes from Greek myth via the Hippolytus of Euripides. Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur, and Hippolyte, single-breasted queen of the Amazons. He lives in the home of Theseus and Theseus' young bride Phaedra. An outdoors he-man sort, Hippolytus neglects the service of Aphrodite, goddess of love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays...
...returns into their own futures. They were scattered across the world and, individually, they practiced political yoga in Puerto Rico, foreign-policy pushups in Paris, telephone calisthenics in Texas, crosscountry running from California, deep-breathing exercises in New Jersey, and the running broad jump in Alaska. For their wondrous hex-athlon and a wide-eyed look into the gymnasium, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...