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...television news producer in Dallas called the Des Moines Register and asked, "Where do we find the pigs and corn? And can we cab there?" One reporter asked the state Democratic committee to help him find a caucus held in a small town fire station with a potbelly stove and a Dalmatian. "We said we could get him a fire station in a small town," said Sarah Herold, the party's press liaison, "but he would have to supply the dog and the stove." State Republican Chairman Stephen Roberts recalls how a reporter for an Eastern daily looked...
Each student also spends at least one 14-hour stretch chained to Westward's diesel stove as "galley slave," cooking for 34 people. Meals are justly referred to as "feeding frenzies." Sample fare: pizza, noodles and beef, fresh-caught dolphin fish. For the most part, the young mariners are too tired for ship board romance, which is discouraged anyway in SEA literature as "tiresome and destructive" in such close quarters. A student-lettered sign high above deck announces: NO FRIGGING IN THE RIGGING...
...tapes, Bianchi, under hypnosis, revealed his painful childhood: his adoptive mother, alternately seductive and sadistic, punished him by holding his hand over the stove, physically beating him and forcing him, at age 14, to pray over his dead adoptive father's body for a week as it lay in its coffin. Watkins feels that such experiences made Bianchi a multiple personality. So does Psychiatrist Ralph Allison, who says he has studied some 50 multiple-personality cases. When asked how he knew he had found the "Steve" personality in Bianchi, Allison said simply...
...will readily confess that the Shah of Iran was far from a saint, but the people of Iran, by ousting the Shah and welcoming Khomeini, have chosen to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. And now they want to accuse the U.S. of lighting the stove...
After a nippy no-more-than-65° F day at the office, Urban Dweller returns to his rented apartment, flicks on the light-and watches as his sigh forms a frozen cloud in the indoor chill. The thermostat is controlled by his thrifty landlord. A woodburning stove is banned by his lease. Improved insulation, not to mention a solar water heater, is hardly on the tenant's list of options. So what does the city dweller do to keep warm...