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...wearing a felt hat walks her dog on a residential street. She watches as a burly man in a light T-shirt walks slowly on the other side of the street and enters a liquor store. She shakes her head with contempt and pulls her dog by the leash. "Come now, Pearl, we must move on," she says in a high voice...
...about the severity of fuel shortages. The widespread public confusion created by these statements, he said, "can very easily drive this nation into a massive depression." Hinckley even hinted at a conspiracy theory to explain the dramatic switch to small cars. He called mysteriously for "leadership to put a leash on some politicians and bureaucrats who would use the energy crisis to achieve poorly conceived social and economic goals-such as creating a small-car society overnight...
...Leash. If Israel continues to balk, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said last week, war could again erupt. Egypt's military commanders are said to be "straining at the leash," confident that they could wipe out Israel's west bank salient. Brigadier General Hassan Abu Saada, a commander of part of Egypt's forces on the canal's east bank, boasted that his troops are ready to fight. "Give me an order from Cairo," he exclaimed, "and I'll push on!" Israel Defense Minister Moshe Dayan scoffed at the Egyptian saber rattling...
...party officials in the Kremlin, mainly because it began to spread, Mafia-style, beyond illegal business deals into politics. "Noxious influences led to corruption, moral and political," admitted a report of the Georgian Communist Party central committee two weeks ago. "Party and economic leaders were led on a leash by dark dealers and became their obedient servants...
...Bobby just might accommodate. He has gone almost that far already, playing while holding a poodle on a leash ("It's harder if the dog isn't housebroken"), while tied to his doubles partner, while running around four chairs obstructing his side of the court, while wearing an overcoat, while carrying a pail of water. In a sunburst of understatement, he says: "I'm a fun guy, I'll do anything for excitement, I'm a ham." Ham? Henny Youngman is merely a ham. Bobby is an extraterrestrial peculiarity. At the antic rate...