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...into antiquity for some of his metaphors, characterizing Babette Bardot (featured player in Meyer's "Mondo Topless" and "Common Law Cabin") as "a blonde-tressed voluptua with dimensions not unlike Etruscan sculpture." And then, still not flagging 1163 pages into the opus, he unfurls this description of cheesecake model Letha Weapons and her 36H bra: "Big boobs bolstered by a breast hammock based on the principle that made the Sydney Opera House feasible...
...instances in which the technique has been tried so far suggest that it may add several years to a patient's life -- at a cost of more than $100,000 a year. However, refinements may soon drastically reduce that to a far more cost-effective $17,000. Letha Mills, director of the bone-marrow transplant program at New Hampshire's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is worried about the chilling effect that rationing would have had on the treatment's invention. "You can't just stop trying to develop new ways to cure people," she says...
...climactic civil rights march in 1965. But a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from 24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God won't let us fail...
...frying vats ignited the vapors and turned the 30,000-sq.-ft. plant into an inferno of flame and thick, yellow smoke. Panicked employees rushed for emergency exits only to find several of them locked. "I thought I was gone, until a man broke the lock off," says Letha Terry, one of the survivors. Twenty-five of Terry's fellow employees were not so lucky. Their bodies were found clustered around the blocked doorways or trapped in the freezer, where the workers had fled in vain from the fire's heat and smoke...
Lebanon? "It ain't our war!" barks Kimm's brother John, 28. But all mourn regardless. Each house around Letha Kimm's has a black ribbon tied to the porch. And in the rich, rolling countryside some miles east, Ed Kimm will soon be buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, not far from the graves of his father and brother...