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...without consulting the bearded Maximum Leader in advance. "We had envisaged the possibility of asking the Soviet Union for missiles," said Castro, "but had reached no decision-when Moscow proposed them to us without prompting." Apparently Castro did not think they were really wanted for Cuba's sake: "They told us that by accepting them we would strengthen the socialist camp throughout the world. We decided to accept them to defend international socialism...
...grandmother had her Ouija board," says one. "My mother had her Bridey Murphy. Now they have this. It's all the same to me." The glossolalists expect skepticism, and respond with a rueful joke: "Maybe this is what St. Paul means by being fools for Christ's sake...
...reported in the nation's press, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals was founded four years ago by his late father, a St. Louis real estate man, who left $400,000 to institute an organization dedicated to the proposition that "all animals should wear clothing for the sake of decency." "It should have been the Society Against Indecency to Naked Animals, of course," explained the junior Prout disarmingly. "but unfortunately my father was a little-well, not quite of sound mind when he drew up the will, and he used the wrong preposition...
...clock class, a girl came up to me and said she had just come from a martini party. Now, I have nothing against martinis-I think they're wonderful thing-but not at ten in the morning. It was just an obvious effort to break a rule for the sake of breaking a rule...