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...Sankt Pauli's 13,000 inhabitants, fully 3,000 are prostitutes. In the 200 yards of Herbertstrasse alone, 20 bordellos stand perfumed cheek by painted jowl, while round-the-clock shifts of whores sit waxen and wooden-faced be hind show windows. Elaborately coifed transvestites in spike heels wobble lumpily along the side streets, brushing shoulders with stewbums in cowboy boots and pale-faced hoods with patent-leather hair. At the Hippodrom, on a lurid avenue appropriately named Grosse Freiheit, bored horses trot in a circle as equally bored equestriennes strip while balancing on their backs. Along the Raper...
Last week word leaked from the Warren Commission that its report would spike each of the overseas theses and endorse with few changes the FBI's original version that Oswald killed alone. However, this is hardly likely to end the myth-making in Europe. Asked a suspicious Frenchman last week: "Will the commission have the right to publish its real conclusions...
...scimitar-shaped rudder something like Eagle's and a radical new mast whose top third is made out of titanium, and can be bent back by guy wires without danger of snapping, to give the sails the best possible set. Under Constellation's mast is a spike from its Revolutionary War forebearer. Constellation's owners...
Bianchi (After shooting Rosa Klebb, thereby saving Bond from being kicked by a poisoned spike on her shoe): Oh, she vas tarrible woman. I hate...
...body has rested in a fetal position inside a pagoda-shaped golden urn. Last week, at the end of the 100-day mourning period, Sarit's remains were cremated in an elaborate ceremony attended by King Bhumibol, Queen Sirikit, the government, the diplomatic corps, as well as a spike-helmeted funeral band and contingents of umbrella-carrying Buddhist priests. Sarit will be remembered as one of the few leaders in Southeast Asia who managed to build a firm, anti-Communist regime; but even as the smoke of his funeral drifted over Bangkok, the press was busy kindling acrid stories...