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...whiskey for the baggage-car, and if Bill kin put astitch in the worst rip in the biler [here in winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be eff some time Thursday, that's day after tomorrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would advise you to be round then." Well, the long and short it, it was cards and whiskey between the conductor, the station-man, Bill the engineer, the fireman, and myself for most of the next forty-eight hours till Thursday noon, when the conductor said we were all ready...
...Montiment Valley. Still, as Hollywood sinks into the sea, a last western has emerged. It is Arthur Penn's new film, Little Big Man, and it was not only shot in real live North America but uses real Indians to play the roles of Indians. This is strange. Stranger yet is the fact that this western opens and closes in an old-age home...
...sinister quality to his sudden thrusts. He lunges twice, quickly: "Never forget, first to the body and then to the head." The yarmulkes fall, but the lesson goes on. It is an odd avocation for a nice Jewish boy who is studying political science at Kingsborough Community College, but stranger still is his calmly stated explanation: "I teach karate not for sport but for the street. I want my students to be able to kill, so that if a Jew is ever attacked, that attacker will never come near him again...
...thick red beard and hair the same length as his beard. His deep voice bobs pleasantly up and down as though he's always telling favorite stories to an appreciative group of children. One day when he was walking along a road in British Columbia between climbs, a stranger stopped and offered to give Art a ride to Anchorage; Art had heard of the incredible beauty of the mountains around Anchorage, so he took the ride, and when he arrived he set out climbing. For a while he lived wherever people would have him, and hitched rides when he wanted...
...copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism's universality. "Jesus Christ shared our human condition, making himself a part of the world of his time," Paul reminded his listeners. "In the same way, the Christian is no stranger among his own people. He shares all their honorable customs...