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...part of that crowd at 4:00 p.m. last Monday, February 11.1 was walking back from class. A 16-year-old boy in a red zipper jacket walked by me and spat on my shoe. I made a verbal note on his carelessness, and suddenly from right around me, three of his fellows, two of them 20 years old and in black leather jackets, the third, a bit younger and quite fat, jumped on me. One of them picked up a big rock and attempted to hit me with it. Someone held my arms behind my back while...
Proprieties tend to wilt in the pervasive heat. In Lord Short Shoe Wants the Monkey, a rising calypso singer strikes a deal at a Barbados nightclub with a white man who owns a trained monkey; the performer gets the onstage use of the animal, and the owner gets a night with a stunning black woman in the singer's entourage. Overhearing this transaction, an American visitor solemnly interrupts: "Gentlemen, forgive me. You cannot trade a woman for a monkey...
...session at the U.N., Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Castiella took the floor to respond to an attack by Khrushchev on General Franco. Khrushchev blew up. He began to shout insults at the Spaniard, punctuating them by pounding his fists on the desk and then, having removed his shoe, banging it resoundingly on the desk too. Then he leaped from his chair and brandished his fists at the frail, undersized Castiella, who assumed a comical defensive pose. Security guards rushed up and separated them. We were stunned at Khrushchev's behavior. At the mission afterward, everyone was embarrassed and upset...
...Nike Airborne shoe, developed for runners aged eight to twelve, features the same ergonomic principles as professional running footwear. But the distinctive design feature is the use of a special material in the toe tips and heel that reflects automobile lights at night for safety...
...Freeman, 64, reclusive founder of a controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease. The Fort...