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When he has wrecked the Oriental T-bird on a quick-built brick and mortar tariff wall, Business Man moves on to do battle with Collective Man. They square off and slug it out with slogans. Collective Man lands two left hooks: "The irresistible historical momentum of the workers' movement" and "the forward thrust of Soviet science." Business Man fights back with collective bargaining and the eight-hour day, follows up with everything from recovered space monkeys to the thinking man's filter. Momentarily victorious, he says: "Come back next week to see how I straighten out that...
...November-while the voters heard from Millionaire Kennedy and Stout Proletarian Humphrey that they had seldom had it worse. Passing through Carson City, Nev. last week, Humphrey summed it up succinctly: "Democrats don't win when they go around playing ticktacktoe. They win when they slug...
...Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem's station wagon and the gunmen. But it was too late; Kassem's driver lay dead, and the Premier himself was reeling and bloodied, his hand ripped by one submachine gun slug, his arm shattered by two more. He had escaped death by inches...
...will turn the management of Britain's foreign policy, economy and continuing social revolution for anything up to five years to come. Last week, as it became apparent that this glittering prize was genuinely up for grabs, Britain's politicians took off the gloves and began to slug it out barefisted...