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Convict Jose Simao, serving a 15-year sentence for murder and robbery, sized up his new cell mate as an ideal companion. Like José, white-haired Abdias Scares da Silva was a habitual criminal with a long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state...
Something about his cell mate's tale clicked in José's memory, and he brooded over it. He asked Abdias to repeat the dates and places. A fortnight ago, as the two men basked in the prison courtyard sun, José blurted out: "Abdias, do you still hate the man who clubbed you?" Abdias replied philosophically: "No, those are the risks of our trade." With a sigh José unburdened himself: "Abdias, my friend, forgive me. I was on the other end of that club. You are supposed to be dead, and I am serving time...
...personally, is kicking off a record $14 million advertising campaign to plug his beer; to tempt the TV-watching home market he has brought out new four-fifths-of-a-quart bottles, plus 16-oz., 10-oz. and tiny 7-oz. "ladies' size" bottles. As a running mate for premium Budweiser, the company has developed a brand-new, cheaper (5? to 10? a bottle) beer called Busch Lager, is now test-marketing it in St. Louis and Texas in the hope of taking sales away from competing nonpremium local beers...
When snails mate, they turn blue in the face, and the operation takes so long that if it starts when rain is falling it may not be completed until hot sunshine endangers the lives of both snails. But the effort is notably productive. Since snails are hermaphrodites, each of the participants becomes both a father and a mother. They lay their eggs (more than one-third of their total weight) in small hollows dug in loose soil. This slow-motion action may take about two days...
...cell, and escape to freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway up a mountainside is mercifully dwarfed by a staggeringly beautiful panorama of Hong Kong...