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...home to Weatherford, Texas, to live with his father. One summer Ben was running for state senator, and his son drove him all over his district. "I met all the dudes down there," he recalls. "Oil, cattle, politics, everything. Let me tell you, my character is milk toast compared with some of those people. Fratricide, patricide, brothers and sisters shooting each other; it was unbelievable...
...toast to my own reunion When I will be one with the stars And in time, and in time We will all be stars...
Despite their comprehensive (and free) medical system, Soviet citizens are not above consulting some rather peculiar practitioners. The current toast of Moscow, for example, is a Georgian nurse named Dzhuna Davitashvili, who claims she can diagnose illnesses without laying eyes on the patient. Muscovites are clamoring to see her, and eagerly pass stories about how she cured cancer or made roses bloom with a wave of her hand. Nurse Davitashvili refuses to charge fees-but she does accept presents...
...Toast of the Town...
...called frontline African states (Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Angola, Tanzania), who gave the guerrillas crucial support during the war. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere had earlier suggested that the British had rigged the vote in favor of Muzorewa. Celebrating Mugabe's victory with a champagne toast, Nyerere declared: "This is not the first time I have been proved wrong, and it is not the first time I'm very pleased that I'm wrong...