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...apple green, the pastries were aging but good. I loved to see Peter's strong teeth clamping down over them, demolishing them; I felt demolished too, and would order more. "Garcon," I would say to the diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped...
Last Angry Man. In Hong Kong, Yu Shui-ming, alias Pee Hai Por ("Leather Shoe Shop"), was asked by a judge to demonstrate how he earned his nickname, pulled off one of his shoes, flung it at the police officer who had arrested him for loitering...
...fringe of nowhere in the heart of South America, the Paraguayan town of Pedro Juan Caballero and the Brazilian town of Ponta Porã doze in the green, rolling forests of the Amambay plateau. A broad, straight strip of grass between the red-roofed towns marks the international border. But they really form a single frontier community of bearded, mud-stained Gauchos, Syrian merchants, Redemptorist priests, barefoot women, and soldiers in faded green uniforms...
Other pieces on the program will be "Por un Amor," two choruses from "II Matrimonio Secreto, choruses from "The Beggar's Opera," and a Czech folk song, "Magdlein im Walde." College songs, as usual, will wind things...
...Lisbon, Lady Bullfighter Conchita Cintron declared that she would soon give up the razzle-dazzle of the ring for the tranquillity of marriage. Her future husband, she said, is Dom Francisco Castelo Branco, a government official in Por tuguese East Africa. She plans to marry him by proxy next September...