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Born on a farm in Ontario, Aimee absorbed that oldtime religion from her zealous Ma. At 17, she married a young Holy Roller who hustled her off to China as a missionary and quickly died there. A few months later, Aimee turned up in the U.S. with a weeks-old daughter in tow. She floundered around the Pentecostal circuit till a grocery clerk named McPherson proposed. After a fairly short spell of McPherson, she fell deathly ill and suffered a vision in which the Lord summoned her from the dishpan to the pulpit. So she dumped her daughter and small...
Somehow, I found time for other activities this past summer. There was the bowling league every Monday night, and Bingo every Tuesday at the Legion. To say nothing of roller skating Friday nights at the park. It was a big summer, all right...
...city, to walk dusty through streets of commuters (resentful) and cripples (dying), or risk ultimate trip (subterranean) and possible brain damage. I choose the underground; I must admit I generally enjoy the subways here (not Boston's sterile parody), in much the same way I might enjoy a roller coaster, a truly garish wedding, or a Fellini movie...
...take the blue line out to the end, you end up in Revere by the once-condemned roller coaster. That amusement park was probably what inspired the famous singer who grew up there to later record a song about another such place. Who was this ride-lover...
Rumania's Tarom has new, British-built BAC-111s on its international flights, but little else. Pilots hamhandedly overcompensate on the controls, giving each flight the quality of a roller-coaster ride. Stewardesses are plump and cheerful. Breakfast sometimes consists of cold roast pork and sliced green peppers. Bucharest has a modern terminal, but ground service is slow and surly...