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...that just one of them would win a supply of four beef filets weekly for a year. Similar scenes occurred at Thom McAn openings in Dallas, Roanoke, Va., and South Bend, Ind. In St. Louis, three banks were attracting lines of new depositors by promising each of them a poke of rib eye. Juicy bovine slabs were joining Waring Blenders and Miami Beach vacations on America's list of treasured giveaways...
...Ervin walks through the Capitol these days, tourists poke each other delightedly: "Look, it's him." Last week the Senator had his four grandchildren in town to attend the hearings. One evening he took them out to dinner at a restaurant on Capitol Hill and everywhere along the way he was stopped by people who wanted to shake his hand. A fundamentally shy man, Ervin is both pleased and embarrassed by all the attention. Said twelve-year-old Bobby Ervin, establishing that a talent for home-grown simile runs in the family...
...Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and in Houston and Cape Kennedy, scientists and engineers held round-the-clock meetings and nation-spanning conference calls to discuss possible repair techniques. One proposal was to have an astronaut poke a giant umbrella-like device out of a hatch and open it above the bald spot...
...armed Indian who was guarding the prisoners soon broke the silence with a well-placed poke to the ribs. "The press is asking you a question," the Indian said as he nudged the FBI agent with his gun. "You answer...
...ignore both the flippancy of their approach to difficult sexual issues, and the symbolism in their jokes. "Mostly, the males felt surprised that the women had to act with such solidarity to secure their identity," said one of the men involved in Wednesday night's transvestiture. "We wanted to poke some fun at the idea of feminism so that it wouldn't be taken too seriously...