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...Ordinary Frenchman. Pierre Poujade looks like a peasant and makes the most of it. He avoids ties in favor of turtleneck sweaters or open-throat shirts. His shoes are often unshined, his pants unpressed, his nails dirty, his light beard unshaven. He prefers his country red wine to champagne, the kitchen to the living room, and he drinks his soup from his plate. He boasts that he has no book learning. "Why should I study books? I know more already than the people who wrote them." He tells crowds: "I'm just le petit Poujade, an ordinary Frenchman like...
Orrik has won ten straight 100-yard events for the Lions, with times of around 53 seconds, and covers the 50 in 24. The Crimson, moreover, will be without the services of its record-holding sprinter, Chouteau Dyer, who has a sore throat...
Kosher meat is more expensive, too. Its slaughter must be rabbinically supervised and conducted according to a set ritual pattern that stresses humaneness. The animal's throat must be cut, says Israel's Chief Rabbi Herzog, "with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered...
...finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." Earl's contribution was often to placate or scare the lawmakers, and he once did it in a clumsy way that displeased Huey. When the legislature tried to impeach Governor Huey, Earl hurled himself upon one hostile lawmaker and bit his throat. Huey thought that impolitic...
Wishful Drinking. In Nowata, Okla., Robert B. Hill was held for trial on a drunk-driving charge despite his protest that the liquor was administered after the accident by a stranger who found him pinned beneath his car, poured whisky down his throat to ease his suffering...