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...Brown also has a special feeling for the likes of his protagonist, who for all her conning ways is a pint-size frontier woman-tough, gritty, fiercely protective of her man. "Watching after a man is a hard, worrisome thing," she says, after opening Long Boy's eyes to a floozy's designs on his money. Most of the time on their travels, she and Long Boy share a room, but their relationship is almost puritanically free of any Nabokovian decadence. Addie's speech, however, is vulgar, pungent country talk, which adds greatly to the book...
...Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking. Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian music and broadcast advice on where to rent cars and find free pineapple juice...
...Cream Cohen, like other B.R. owners, had to put up about $30,000 for his franchise. His store sells upwards of $100,000 a year in one-scoop (25?) and two-scoop (45?) cones, hand-packed cartons (75? a pint) and other goodies...
...rising popularity of U.S. strawberries, until recently a rarity in Europe, symbolizes the gustatory trend. Cargo jets normally fly whole planeloads of American berries twice a week to Sweden, where they sell for at least $1.30 a pint. Swiss customers get their deliveries the day they arrive from a trucking service that meets the flights at the airport in Geneva. Robert Flatoe, an American living in Frankfurt, who has become the leading European importer of strawberries, plans to charter about 20 Boeing 707s this spring to carry 1,600,000 Ibs. from California to the Continent. There is a growing...
...cervix and curettage (scraping) of the womb lining. For the next four weeks, most physicians consider abortion too hazardous because of the danger of causing hemorrhage or even puncturing the uterus. Beyond the 16th week, the preferred method is "saline induction," the injection of about half a pint of salt solution into the womb. New York Hospital, which has 112 beds in its women's division, is scheduling eight D and Cs a day, plus 16 salines a week. St. Luke's Medical Center, with 137 beds available, does six D and Cs daily, 18 salines a week...