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...through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...
...last May began to go down in Beirut streets. Premier Karami helped cool things off by announcing that "our chief responsibility is to bind up the wounds and wash the traces of blood from the face of Lebanon." At heart an Arab nationalist ("I consider Nasser a superman," he said recently), Karami is nevertheless on record as opposing merger with the United Arab Republic...
After five years of operation, Japan now has 1,400,000 sets in operation. No bar, restaurant or coffeehouse can afford to be without one. There are quiz programs, broadcasts of baseball games and many imported U.S. film series (Emperor Hirohito's favorite program is Superman). Viewers who want no part of commercials can tune in on the 19 government-run stations, which operate on the lines of Britain's BBC. But the seven commercial stations have more business than they can handle and their number is increasing by the month; by year's end commercial stations...
Cold Turkey. "About the only sure way to stop this stuff is to set your store up in a nudist colony," said a Seattle superman, by now suspicious of just about any housewife who carries a big handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a warm day. In many U.S. cities, market cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages...
...party to celebrate the Philharmonic's departure on a seven-week Latin American tour. For Felicia Montealegre, wearing a cape and Gothic-style gown by Valentina, the most pointed appreciation came from her 2½-year-old when he spied her in costume: "Ah,'' he cried, "Superman...