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...weekly trips over the 5,800 miles from New York to Tel Aviv, the passenger lists are 80% Jewish. El Al corners the groups with what it calls a "sales mating call." The rabbinically supervised menu includes gefilte fish and bagels and lox; there are also potato pancakes for Hanukkah and matzo-ball soup for Passover. The airline enjoys a 55.9% load factor, last year made a $200,000 profit; this was not sensational, but it was better than most other state-owned lines, which are losing money...
Some dyspeptic Iroquois brave named it "Se-rach-to-que," which has been translated as "Floating Scum upon the Water." Among dip-minded suburban housewives it enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet...
...female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion. But she has to use sweet-potato moonshine, rather than a sob story, to pry loose Junpei's bankroll. Then she absconds, but only after he has fallen in love with...
...before the potato famine decimated its population, Ireland was Western Europe's most densely settled country; since then, its 9,000,000 inhabitants have dwindled...
...reforms in the Alianza and promises what he terms "socialism within the law." All he means by it is that the state will take better care of the poor, but the message gets a lot of mileage. In 1961 Odría was hit in the face by a potato during his first campaign venture outside the capital of Lima and he never set foot in the provinces again. This time, bankrolled by Belaúnde's disaffected conservatives, he is stumping the length of the country. The army obviously would not object if he won and -although...