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Kisses & Gamesmanship. In the finals, Balsis' opponent was none other than Wimpy Lassiter. A master gamesman in the tradition of Robert Cannafax, who used to pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg while his opponent was shooting, Lassiter complained of a fever, sinusitis and ulcers. "Pool players all die of malnutrition at 50," he moaned. "I've got four years to live...
...reprimanded by her stockbroker father for not wearing enough clothes. In 1947 she married FinancierPhilanthropist William Hale Harkness, inherited his fortune in Standard Oil holdings when he died seven years later. Searching for a vocation "superior to the way of life I was born to-society," she took a stab at interior decorating, sculpting and piano playing, eventually turned to writing semiclassical music...
...very sorry for the duck," said a zoo spokesman, "but it is rather heartening for us to see Goldie get a good square meal." Goldie had in fact made an earlier stab at food in the form of Dusty, a Cairn terrier ambling with his mistress through the park, but Dusty fought the eagle to a draw. A snow goose would have fared less well had not spectators driven Goldie...
...hand, Banfield attacks government programs from all sides: if they are not trivial, they are ineffective; if by chance they do what they are intended to, they either ignore the central problem of poverty, aggravate it, or, at best, cancel each other out. In any case, (the final stab) effective action against poverty is politically out of the question...
...Bandaranaike, who stayed on as caretaker chief of the government, denounced the defection as a "stab in the back." De Silva explained that he felt she "was going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks...