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...facing ruin," said a major South African exporter of peanut oil, as the ban on his products threatened to spread from the West Indies to several Asian nations. In Europe, Sweden stopped buying South African fruit, and Lectrolite Products Ltd., big South African exporter of auto spare parts, fortnight ago advised the government export-promotion board that its products are now taboo in nine nations. Three weeks ago the delegates to the conference of African independent states at Addis Ababa voted unanimously to urge all emerging black governments to ban South African goods. The Nigerian government has already served notice...
...pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor. She runs a worn track to the front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband...
...during practice and seeing them land, wind-slowed, just short of the 397-ft. leftfield fence: "This park is too big. Somebody's gonna get some salary cuts around here." Said Giant First Baseman Willie McCovey, after his initial experience with wind-blown debris from the stands: "The peanut shells kept getting in my eyes...
Hector obediently bided his time, called almost every evening through the years at the McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power...
...magic candlesticks. Is alligators holy, Bishop? Is everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...