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Lemonade Lather. By the molten chocolate ribbon of the mighty Mekong River, Co Ha and the bridegroom whom her father had selected sat down before a long table set out with roast chickens, pig, steaming white rice, and jar after jar of yellow rice wine and white-lightning chum-chum. Despite the wedding finery that set off her lustrous black hair, the bride-to-be sat among the wedding guests blinking back her tears. She had already protested that she did not want to marry the wealthy but middle-aged landowner chosen by her father, that her true love...
...bedeviled head (Alastair Sim) into a hand-wringing funk, even has a detested master potted in the backside with a homemade blunderbuss. But these exploits are merely diversionary tactics to mask Icarus' Big Idea. The earthshaking plot: Icarus plans to pilot a stolen airplane to Vienna, jar the Big Four powers with a peace petition signed by Ferndale's young peace lovers...
...astoundingly precocious know-it-all about the stock market, moved ahead of Van Doren as a money winner by adding the jackpot of The $64,000 Challenge to his take of $100,000 from The Big Surprise. And CBS's I Love Lucy, which NBC hopes to jar out of its five-year supremacy, still kept a narrow lead of five Trendex rating points over Twenty One. But as Van Doren turned down movie offers and sweated out his weekly decision whether to keep putting his money on the line, NBC still felt hopeful in putting its money...
...Knowing that many cases of apparent blindness are relieved by a shock, Griffin explained: "There was no bump, no jar. Nothing had happened. Suddenly everything looked like red sand in front of my eyes." By the time a doctor arrived, Griffin could make out the color of his blue suit and read a prescription blank. Near shock from the experience, Griffin was put on heavy doses of sedatives, given "cylinder glasses" to help pull his eye muscles back to useful strength. His vision. Griffin estimated, was about...
...small fry in California implored us to send him the governor to help give a "crucial" class report on New Jersey; another sought a jar of soil from the banks of the Delaware where Washington crossed. Our alltime favorite came from a little wiseacre in The Bronx...