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...only two or three locally produced cabinets were turned out daily. According to a typical Cairo joke, Nasser dies and goes to the Egyptian hell, but finds the place less terrifying than expected. Reason: because of a severe shortage of fuel, the oil does not boil often, the rack is always breaking down for lack of 20 spare parts, and the pitchforking devils-like true Egyptian civil servants-sign in at eight o'clock, then sleep the rest...
...faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened to the deck. Unnecessary bulkheads, deck rails, and the masthead wind indicator (weight: about 2 lbs.) were gone. Even a beer cooler and a wooden pipe rack were sacrificed for speed...
Kazantzakis knew something of suffering himself. By stifling his own physical desires, he contracted a savage skin disease of the same type that used to rack medieval ascetics. Neither its origin nor its cure is known, and it is commonly called "The Saint's Disease." "My dear sir," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once scolded him, "you are trying to live out of your century. Your body is suffering from remorse of spirit." It was Kazantzakis' belief that only through soul-searing struggle could man approach God. To his eye, the Francis of legend was too mild...
...Harvard lacrosse team arrived in the seventh, just in time to watch the boys from Penn rack up five runs. The Penn rally started when Harvard helped them load the bases on two walks and the lone Crimson error. Four Quaker singles followed to give Penn its only scoring inning...
Chapel was one of 50 passengers on a United Air Lines DC-7 about to take off from Sacramento to Los Angeles when Stewardess Judy Churchill noticed his briefcase in an overhead rack, asked him to put it beneath his seat. "Well," said Chapel, "all I have in it is a revolver and nitroglycerin." The stewardess ignored him, but Chapel pressed on. "Didn't you hear me?" he asked. "I have a revolver and nitroglycerin in my briefcase. Aren't you supposed to report that to someone?" She was-and did. As a result, the flight was held...