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Well things didn't really get hot till we got out to Pegleg Mac's. About an hour and a half from Ketchum, down in the valley on the far side of snow-towered Galena Pass, is Pegleg's spread: some pint-sized log cabins, a twin-holer outhouse, a good bit of fence, and the hot springs. We hadn't come to admire the fence...
...twice secretary (party leader) of the Christian Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted out on a vote of no confidence...
...small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious food shortages. Men dressed in army uniforms use M-79s to threaten shopkeepers, then take whatever they wish. Children who sell gasoline by the pint fight among themselves to pour their wine bottle's worth into the tank of a car for a few hundred riels, about 300. The homeless, the maimed, the wretched, the exhausted squat on the streets, huddle under makeshift canvas stalls...
...girls meet Rafferty in a park where he has gone to spend his lunch hour sucking on his pint of rye. They inexplicably abduct him (using a gun loaded with blanks), let him escape and then permit him to rejoin them when he decides that careening around the country may be more interesting than what he has been doing...
...Erytreans For Liberty in America all have the same color skins, a mixture arrived at by melting a bar of Suchard's milk chocolate in a pint of walnut finish. They're all males, all under 5'10", all have arabic features, and all sport little black moustaches. They speak a foreign tongue...