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...done that way any more. Not even in Chad, where ten years ago President Ngarta Tombalbaye ordered all high government officials to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual combining physical abuse (e.g., flogging, mock burial) with ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina (e.g., crawling naked through a nest of termites). For his pains, Tombalbaye was assassinated within a year, and his people danced in the streets. Americans bear their burdens with better humor. They show no inclination to deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey once questioned whether Walter Mondale had the "fire...
Playing in a windy, drizzly Eagles' nest, the batwomen relied on an offensive eruption of 12 hits, as well as solid defense and effective pitching to register the victory...
...Which is the most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards all three contestants a crown, proving the royal dictum: "What you can do is more important than what you look like," wisdom that applies all the way up the food...
...bets on how long each new arrival would survive; then, happy as a boy with a new stick and hoop, he would set about giving them hell. He made them wait weeks for audiences ... He invited them to banquets at which the Russian Ambassador was served bird's-nest soup and Peking duck, while the Americans got borsch and blinis. He refused to flirt with their wives. With the British Ambassador he would pretend to be a hick just down from the villages, and speak only in an obscure regional dialect; in the case of the United States, however...
...target is Gulf Oil, the nation's fifth largest oil company (1982 sales: $30.6 billion). Pickens announced last week that he and a group of investors had bought $630 million worth of Gulf stock, or 14.5 million shares. He said they had put together a $1.1 billion nest egg to buy all the Gulf stock they could get their hands...