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...Hotel like enemy tanks, and such was the TV-induced congestion that one city cop had to borrow a TV crane to regulate traffic (see cut). But the moral was apparently lost on the country's newspapers, where page after gift-page reflected TV's ambition to hog the San Francisco show...
...comes a handy guide to arterial and coronary health. Among peasants in India, starved of protein and of fat, a cholesterol level of 125 milligrams per 100 milliliters of blood is common. It is about the same for fish-and-rice-eating Japanese. Among Americans living high off the hog, it hits 250 before a doctor begins to worry. And among men with coronary-artery disease, it may go to 500 or more...
...herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro was raised off and on by an aunt, a grandmother, a godmother, an uncle and, finally, by his mother and her new man. He went to school occasionally, but was endlessly yanked out to tend the oxen, water the hog-plum trees, deliver the tortillas his mother made, and work as a hired hand on farms. He was beaten with fists, whips and sticks. Before he was ten, "there was this older girl . . . She needed a man already and well, she forced...
...Runner was fifth. Then one of the Formulas ran out of gas. Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed up-until his reserve tanks ran dry and he had to switch to the main fuel tank. Lucky Moppie stopped dead. By the time Bertram got his engines going again, Abbott's Rum Runner, damaged as it was, had passed everybody...
...gravest mistakes was to underestimate his antagonist, bear-shaped District Attorney Henry Menasco Wade. Belli referred to him as a yokel and a hog caller. But Wade's slow twangy drawl and furrowed face camouflage a tough, sharp mind. Under Wade, says a veteran Texas trial lawyer, Dallas County has "the toughest prosecution in the state of Texas." During the trial, Wade made a sparrow-and-peacock contrast with Belli; he played the earnest, rumpled country boy v. the gaudy city slicker, complete with red velvet briefcase. And Wade certainly knew that in the eyes of a Texas jury...