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...incumbent Democrat Preston Smith was conducting a listless campaign until a broom-wielding student approached him on a speakers' platform at the University of Houston. In Massachusetts, Democrat Kevin White aroused the interest of the electorate not at all until he went into the hospital with a perforated stomach ulcer. Smith is the favorite in Texas, and White's physical and political health are both reported improving...
...year figure is more or less correct, but here is what it takes to earn that kind of money. A trucker is away from home sometimes for weeks, often driving trucks that are furnaces in summer and freezing in winter. A good percentage of truck drivers have chronic stomach trouble and other health problems due to the existence they have to lead. Contrary to popular opinion, most truck-stop food is not very good. Truck driving is a physical hazard. Many men die on the highways every year...
...never had the stomach to be an empire?in fact, it can be argued that any democracy in which the voters must be sold periodically on the need to maintain a world role cannot possibly be an empire today. But the U.S. has legitimate quasi-imperial needs and obligations in the sense of helping to maintain (as distinct from dictating) stability in wide areas. How to do this in today's world is the dilemma behind the Middle East conflict...
...neckties. Meanwhile the Israelis fought the male skyjacker in a desperate hand-to-hand battle for possession of his gun. Then passengers heard a muffled pop-pop. Using his special low-power pistol, the Israeli agent had shot the Arab gunman, but the steward was critically wounded in the stomach. The 142 passengers and crew members may well have been saved from death or serious injury by a malfunctioning fuse on a grenade, which was found as the plane was making an emergency landing in London. For unknown reasons, it had failed to explode. Leila, unsuccessful in her attempt...
...need: food, water, cigarettes, paper and pen. These they provided in abundant supply -almost too abundant. The meals originally came at a rate of five a day: two in the morning, then lunch, a hefty afternoon snack, and finally dinner. "Tumtum one of the Khmers said, slapping my fat stomach. Then, slapping his own rock-hard middle, he boasted, "Kampuchea, tut-tut." Kampuchea means Cambodia in Khmer...