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...Rivers State, married Miss Ethel Potts-Johnson, also of Rivers State. The wedding cake, shaped like a ship, was flown in from Lagos. The wedding dinner for 100 guests included two suckling pigs, three turkeys, 30 cold chickens, eight ducks, one side of roast beef, two goats on a spit, 30 chickens on a spit, various fresh salads, charlotte russe, three dozen bottles of vintage champagne, three cases of Scotch. Among the guests was Lieut. Colonel Phillip Effiong, the last leader of Biafra...
...spit-and-polish product of Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Gowon is sometimes dismissed as "Jack the Boy Scout" in Lagos diplomatic circles. He neither smokes nor drinks, keeps his 5-ft. 10-in. frame trim at 140 Ibs. by playing squash or polo every day, and laces his conversation with such mission-school phrases as "goodness me." He once apologized to newsmen for saying "hell" and added, "I forgot that I am a soldier." When asked how he hoped to be remembered for his conduct of the war, he replied, "I want to feel that...
...past heroin ("horse") was an overwhelming favorite for stimulating horses to run faster, but heroin had unfortunate side effects and some horses became uncontrollably wild. Today's stimulants are much more sophisticated and harder to detect in the post- race spit and urinalysis, but the penalty for use of stimulants- being barred from racing forever- is so severe that the unscrupulous use other methods to help their horse across the wire first...
COLUMBIA-BROWN; While chewing this one over, I am tempted to spit it out, Columbia has made for some good copy this year, and I am grateful, but it really looks grim today for the Lions, who may have the first 0-9 season in their history by dinner tonight. Columbia is pulling all stops, however. Last night at Barnard there was a sock hop, and Frankie Avalon was there with Conway Twitty. If the Lions can pull out a win today, these sock hops could well become weekly affairs, ergo, as commonplace as losing. Oddly enough, Columbia's sports...
...phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says. "It tasted terrible. But I had five bananas, each very different...