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...prove the point, NCCI sent an Englishman, a Hungarian, and a colored immigrant, all equally well qualified, in search of a job. They applied for the same position. The Englishman was never turned down, the Hungarian was turned down thirteen times and the colored person was turned down 27 times...
...seat number thirteen on every plane, flying standby continuously. Halfway through the ordeal, when he had to vault through a window to get by locked doors, he became tired of the whole idea...
...destruction; it was his crippled hand that placed the briefcase stuffed with plastic explosives at Hitler's feet in a briefing hut in East Prussia on July 20, 1944. The outcome is an old tory. A chance gesture pushed the bomb out of killing range of Hitler, "thirteen officers were wounded; Hitler was only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight on July 20, he was seized, condemned to death by a ummary court-martial, and executed in the courtyard...
...that Miss Goya enjoys a lesbian relationship with one of her roommates. Another is that she's a yeh-yeh girl just breaking into echo-chambers and the Top 40. But the most important reason is that Miss Goya is a bitch goddess: she looks like a captivating thirteen-year-old and possesses the assurance of a woman of the world. The assurance comes from keeping only herself in mind. Not that it requires effort. With a bitch goddess, concentration on self is spontaneous, not disciplined. Godard sees this type as the Eternal Woman--others who don't reach that...
...purpose of the mission was to find war-injured children suitable for medical treatment in the U.S." How many such children were found by the three-doctor mission sent to Viet Nam by the Committee of Responsibility to Save War-Burned and War-Injured Vietnamese Children? Thirteen, for now. Eventually, reported one of the doctors last week, the program would probably transport from five to ten children a month to the U.S. for plastic surgery or prosthetic-device fitting too complex to be carried out in the western Pacific...