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Like a surgeon replacing an ulcerated stomach with an artificial one, the Inner Belt must extract much from the entrails of Cambridge before it can effect a cure. In the course of the experiment, people, business, and the city will suffer heavily, with the possibility ever present that the scheme might fail...
...that of a redheaded, freckled Irishman from Larkspur, Calif, named Francis P. Corrigan, 35. It was a face they liked. In four years as the U.S. Information Service's public affairs officer in Luangprabang, Corrigan acquired a working knowledge of the Lao language and a stomach that could take the glutinous rice and fiery red peppers he was served when traveling about the back country. He shot craps with the governor of the province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages by plane, Jeep or muleback to show propaganda films about Communist terrorism...
...Batista's pay, directed against Castro was now directed in Castro's pay against Batista. Last week he announced another switch in loyalties. He turned up at a Mexico City press conference, a defector from Castro, declaring that Communism had taken over Cuba and he could not stomach...
...what was the important thing you wanted to see me about?" I inquired, blocking Boris' shot with my stomach. "Are you raising price supports on borscht...
...Bresson's theme, the first parish assignment of a young French curate, is sufficiently mundane, his treatment of it becomes increasingly unconvincing. The priest himself suffers from all manner of physical and mental ills (he doubts his faith, and is ultimately a victim of cancer of the stomach), but his parish is sick beyond belief. A grieving countess follows him at a respectful distance; haggard crones put knock-out drops in his wine ("they only do it for fun," explains one of his less demented parishioners); and his nine-year-old communion class ignores the catechism to devise methods...