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...Grosse Pointe Shores thrown by Ralph Wilson, owner of the N.F.L. Buffalo Bills. The Minnesota delegation was treated to a luncheon and fashion show at a suburban branch of Saks Fifth Avenue department store, and South Dakota delegates enjoyed a cookout at the Detroit Yacht Club. Under a huge tent at Stroh's Brewery, hundreds of visitors quaffed free bottles of Detroit's suds while listening to a five-piece country-and-western band that appeared to know a song for every state...
...hole where love and lechery are humorously blurred with a yearning for the Absolute. In short, the novel is a romantic and philosophical farce, a form of entertainment that the author has owned since the publication of such fetching titles as No but I Saw the Movie, Into Your Tent I'll Creep, The Tunnel of Love and Comfort Me with Apples...
...terrific for Bronco Billy: crowds are small, his crew mutinous, and his assistants keep running off when they get throwing knives in their legs and their butts banged on the ground. The ropester gets himself arrested, the Indian's squaw gets herself pregnant and the Bronco Billy tent gets itself burned to the ground. Meanwhile, a young woman named Antoinette Lily gets herself dumped by her husband of 12 hours (who is actually after her money because Lily, you see, is actually a rich heiress from New York) and is forced to take up with the show...
...most Israelis it was a week of unrelieved bad news. The inflation rate rose to a peak of 133%. The coalition government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened to fall apart again over disputed cuts in defense spending. Angry squatters completed a tent settlement in Jerusalem to protest the housing shortage. Most disturbing of all, however, was a revelation in a parliamentary debate: more citizens are leaving Israel than at any time since the country was founded 32 years ago, on the very principle of the Jews' return to the land of Zion...
...family scrambled into a nearby shack, waited two hours and emerged to find themselves in a wasteland of ash and fallen trees. They started off to find their car, but the trail had been obliterated, and they had no idea where to look. So they pitched a tent and settled in for what turned out to be a 30-hour wait, munching on survival rations from their packs and sleeping on the ash. Around noon on Monday, an Air Force helicopter pilot spotted them. Said the pilot, Sgt. Earl Edwards: "The area they were in looked like somebody had dropped...