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Thenceforth, as they prepared to patch up the Kremlin's quarrel with Tito, these two were thick in intrigue, though in Belgrade Mikoyan appeared to be only a third man. Asked for his picture, he jerked a thumb at B. and K.: "They're the ones to photograph...
Belly-Bottom Strain. Then Sal's pals are off again, by bus. on foot, by thumb, roaming the continent, feeling the wind of Wyoming nights and the heat of Texas days, looking for Moriarty's never-to-be-found father or anyone's sister, always expecting the ultimate in music or love or understanding around the next bend in the road. Excitement and movement mean everything. Steady jobs and homes in the suburbs are for the "squares...
...himself in the courtroom. During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy, he said, would wait till the jury's eyes were turned from him, then raise a hand as if to rub his neck. Cheasty saw what Hoffa wanted him to see: a Hoffa thumb zipping across the throat in an unmistakable gesture of a knife slit. Translation: Hoffa's description of what could happen to Cheasty...
...Baby's pacifier, long condemned as unsanitary, likely to cause disease and deform the teeth, is making a comeback. An American Dental Association spokesman wrote in Today's Health that many pediatricians and dentists now regard the pacifier as the lesser of two evils when compared with thumb sucking. Strong point in the pacifier's favor: children give them up earlier (usually at 14 months), then usually do not take to the thumb, which can gravely deform the permanent teeth...
...that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads to socialism" now seemed to bear the approving imprint of Khrushchev's pudgy thumb...