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...prevent a bad injury in case the plane hits sudden turbulence. The common belief that seats in the tail are safer than those up front has a little basis in fact, but the passenger can do better by sitting close to an emergency exit. Above all, he should swallow his shyness and ask questions. He should not imitate Comedian Mort Sahl's timid traveler who would "rather die than look foolish." The annals of the air are filled with stories of people who led many other passengers out of a crash simply because they had troubled to find...
...would mean tariffs so low that competition would force its sluggish home industries to become more efficient. Of course, some Austrian firms would perish in the process. "They'd die anyway eventually," shrugs Austrian EEC Envoy Eugen Buresch. As harsh as that prescription sounds, Austria seems willing to swallow it to bolster its economic strength...
...this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than a Mafia convention. None of the characters ever fully escape their enormous and restrictive obligations to the story. But for all that, the reader may find himself wistfully trying to swallow Benchley's preposterous tale, if only for the bouquet. Benchley writes with a smooth comic skill that is at least reminiscent of that of his father, the late humorist Robert Benchley, who himself aspired to write serious stuff, but never got around...
...Well," said Ethel, "the exact same thing happened. The plaster hardened. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't talk. I kept moaning, hmmmmm, hmmmmm, hmmmmm! They knew I was suffering, but they made believe they couldn't hear...
...lawyer-aides to pick up his children at school, or require them to don white coats and serve cocktails. He first-names Michigan Supreme Court justices, tells everyone who will listen that "educators should get off their duffs," papers the country with lawyer-luring ads that make academic purists swallow their pipestems. For all that, Shapiro has made Michigan's I.C.L.E. one of the best of its kind...