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...picture is a mad chow mein of Chinese-laundry English, doused with a sickly marmalade of sentiment and soy-sauced now and then by a daffy line (prostitute announcing her baby's name: "Weenston. Hees fader velly importan' man"). Dramatically, it is just one long touristic stagger through the better bars and restaurants of Hong Kong...
...Every meeting of preachers brings word of another minister's wife who is on the brink of a mental and emotional collapse," reports an article in the Texas religious weekly, The Baptist Standard. Among the reasons: "The stresses and strains are enough to stagger an Amazon . . . Most ministers' wives have never heard a divine call, they have simply married men who have." They lead an "inexorable fishbowl existence," in which they are expected to be leaders and models in all fields. "Summarily stated, being a preacher's wife is the hardest of Kingdom positions...
...intrepid explorers scramble down volcanic chimneys, bathe in a grotto lined with glittering quartzes, stagger through regions of miasmal fumes and luminous algae, survive an attack by giant lizards, sail on a raft across an underground sea, get wrecked in the whirlpool that spins around the planet's axis, stumble into sunken Atlantis, and finally are sucked into a volcanic vent and blown out the top of Mount Stromboli (altitude: 3,040 ft.) into the Tyrrhenian...
...refraining from competition in the intercollegiate quiz sport "College Bowl" (Channel 5, 5:30-6 p.m. Sundays), Harvard may be hiding its intellectual lights under a bushel-basket; solid achievement, such as our Rhodes Scholarship record, cannot hope to stagger the public so smartly as the sight of the bright young flash gleaming out cultural answers over...
...distribution company selling to farmers (who often use gas unstintingly because of a 2½-per-gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from his more direct agricultural interests that Ray Garvey and his big family (four children, 18 grandchildren) annually reap enough of the golden crop to stagger the imagination-and he does it without bending either the letter or the spirit of the nation's farm support laws...