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Inevitably, a shower of bullets fell on the innocent. A parish priest was killed in a crossfire just after he administered the last rites to a man he thought was dying; the man survived to tell the story. On a Belfast street a young man, one of 13 children of an unemployed laborer, wept uncontrollably as he told his sister: "They say Dad's dead; they say he's in the morgue...
...playlet takes place on an idyllic Sunday in an idyllic country town, where strollers shower coins and smiles on the local beggar, and husbands treat their wives with adoring deference. Eventually, in all the town's houses and apartments, everyone sits down to Sunday lunch. One after another, the husbands discover flies in their soup. Smiles turn to frowns, soothing words to cross ones. Insults are delivered and returned. Crockery goes smashing. Soup (with flies) pours in torrents from under doors. The police arrive. The civic disturbance turns, absurdly, into global war, and then into an atomic Armageddon...
...harmony in as many as 26 hotel rooms to resolve, about 15,000 local issues. Discussions involved items as diverse as the quality of toilet paper in plant lavatories, layoff procedures and safety precautions. At U.S. Steel's Gary plant, for example, workers wanted the water for their showers pumped from city reservoirs instead of from Lake Michigan. "Christ," said one delegate, "now you smell worse after taking a shower than you did before...
Trevino's no-sweat image belies his devotion to the game. On his first day at the 1968 Masters, he played 36 practice holes, followed that with nine holes on a pitch-and-putt course and then, after a shower, ended at midnight on a par-three course, going another nine holes in sports coat and alligator shoes. Prior to last year's British Open, he spent eight full days hitting 600 to 700 practice shots a day learning how to hook the smaller English ball. "I play every day," he says. "Even if I'm taking some time...
...sexual revolution that's killing us," moans Mel, who has been nude nonstop now for 18 years. "The pornographic movies, the topless-bottomless bars, the dirty magazines-they're making nudism in America passé." To show what he means, Mel slips into shower clogs and takes us on a tour of his camp, mercifully letting us keep our pants on. The layout of the place hints of its past grandeur: 16 rustic cabins idling on a hillside, and down on the flat, dozens of vacant trailer slips where you can almost envision happy, laughing naked people swarming...