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They told him to hold his hands above his head and keep them there. Eight boys then administered "the atomic bomb" - some slugged him in the stomach while others repeatedly punched him in the back. It was not a mugging...
...richest man in the U.S. His European polish might have seemed a liability in American politics, but he knew just how to put it to good use. Operating on the principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French chef in his kitchen and invited Washington's notables. He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests...
...fact, only pleasantly robust. His stomach expands like a beautiful hyperbola. His voice is loud and clear, with a curiously nasal effect. His hair, though it has receeded, is a strikingly handsome combination of silver and gray. For a man who officially entered politics at the age of 21 in 1936 (as a delegate to the state Democratic covention) and suffered two defeats before finally winning elective office, Alfred E. Vellucci looks like he's enjoyed every minute of the game...
...treasurer of the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda, where she started as a dancing teacher in 1927. Among her close friends was unpredictable, withdrawn Dorothy Butts, a Methodist and a former teacher at Holton-Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further tests of an abdominal tumor...
...third cautioned that "emotion plays the major part of many decisions, and that emotion is conditioned by one's background, love and hate feelings, and stomach disorders...