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...worse. "Who told you to get pregnant now?" snapped a middle-aged woman last week as a young mother-to-be entered a butcher shop in downtown Warsaw. "Here comes the little cripple," muttered another shopper as a handicapped woman hobbled toward the counter. "She'll probably skip home when she gets around the corner...
Another paperback bestseller, The Second Official I Hate Cats Book (Holt Rinehart Winston; $3.95), makes no pretense whatever of liking Felis. The animals pictured by Cartoonist Skip Morrow are uniformly fat and dumb-and alive-and they get a variety of comeuppances in ways that manage to be amiably humorous. The two I Hate books have 575,000 copies in print. They too have stirred a barrage of virulently pro-feline protest mail...
Then there is the Ecole Polytechnique, the science and engineering school molded by Napoleon, which accepts about 300 students each year. Graduates are required to spend one year in the military, and while many remain with the armed forces, more skip on to science and business, where they meet other pedigreed products of such other honored schools as the Ecole des hautes Etudes Commercials...
...surprising as his victory. His early-winter performances this racing season had been so unimpressive that at one point, he was dropped from stakes competition and entered in a simple allowance race. Then it was discovered that Summing was suffering from a blood infection, and he was forced to skip the Derby and the Preakness. Two weeks before the Belmont, he traveled to Keystone Race Track near Philadelphia for the Pennsylvania Derby. A solid win there convinced Trainer
...officials into the affairs of Sicilian Financier Michele Sindona, an accused P2 member currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Investigating magistrates claimed to have found evidence that lodge members had helped Sindona skip bail in New York in 1979 by faking his kidnaping and hiding him near Palermo. Another alleged lodge brother was the former commander of Italy's Finance Police, General Rafaele Giudice, who has been implicated in an oil-import scandal involving as much as $2.2 billion in tax frauds...