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...about two years ago, Joe revved up his hearse and cruised on to new adventures. He left his legacy, though, and so his little pizzeria, conveniently situated above Felix's Shoe Repair, still serves the worst pizza in town to a dwindling number of loyalists. If you want to eat in solitude, try Joe's but if you want to eat good pizza, go somewhere else. The subs, however, are pretty good, particularly the veal parmigiana. But the place just isn't the same without...
...seldom has its future looked as grim as it did last week. True, the latest invasion of Zaïre's Shaba region by Katangese rebels based in neighboring Angola had been repulsed. But the damage, political and psychological as well as material, would take a long time to repair. As they sifted through the wreckage, French Legionnaires found the bodies of several more victims of the fighting and massacre. At week's end the official death toll stood at 589 Africans and 131 whites, including a few who had been buried in their own gardens by servants or friends...
When Dantzic acquired his Cirkut, it took him months to repair it and learn to use it, as well as to find the right film (from Kodak at $30 a one-shot roll). Last summer he set out in a rented Dodge van with his wife Cynthia and their son Gray, 10, to cover 30 states in 100 carefully planned days. Most often people were friendly and helpful. In Butte, Mont., a supervisor led the Dantzics around a mine for two days to find the right vantage point; in San Antonio a cop held up traffic while they took...
...Charles Philip Arthur George Mount-batten-Windsor did not exist, who could invent him? Consider. He can pilot a jet fighter and knows enough about helicopters to help repair them. He has skippered a Royal Navy minesweeper through North Atlantic gales with the skill of a yachtsman handling a racing sloop. He plays an aggressive, three-plus-handicap game of polo and is a qualified paratrooper. He is a gifted amateur cellist who can be moved to tears while listening to the music of Berlioz. He has scuba-dived in the Caribbean, schussed down Alps, sambaed into the night with...
Nobody, no politician, no political philosopher, no economist has so far been able to repair or replace them...