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...Yusufs six children were not harmed, but there were other deaths when the Israelis began making their getaway. During an exchange of fire between the Israelis and the aroused fedayeen guards, a 70-year-old Italian woman looked out of her apartment window and was killed by a stray bullet. Two Beirut policemen entered the fighting and also died. The Israelis suffered no losses as they smoothly rolled out of the neighborhood in their undamaged cars...
...fight, however, never comes off. In fact, long before Rosalie leaves both of them, Cesar and David have become best friends. This is one of the consequences of living, as all the characters do, in an airbrushed world, in which everyone and everything is stylized and charming. No stray marks, no smudges, no coloring outside the lines in this crayon book. Every man seems to keep a beautiful mistress of firm breasts and docile character. David's down and out artist friends have that fashionably seedy look which has replaced plaids on the Fly Club veranda. One can hardly blame...
...profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with corrupt judges (it takes three months for the flesh of the rump to heal after 500 blows; feet never heal...
...offenses that disturbed city officials. Said Chenoweth: "It would have been more understandable if they had done something serious. You know, you expect a cop to go crooked." But is there not a little room for rejoicing that, at least in Des Moines, when a few policemen stray off the line, it is balloons and slingshots they play with instead of heroin and the Mafia...
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.--After a week of delays, cancelled practice runs, and a switch in scheduling due to inpenetrable mists which choked the mountain, racers at the NCAA downhill finally found enough stray rays of sunshine Friday to complete the competition...