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...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...
...acute alcoholism; in a Pittsburgh hotel bathtub. When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...
...complete justice to the quirky beliefs of backwoods Americans in western Missouri and Arkansas. In this book, the quirks are set down as fact, exhaustively and entertainingly, by an Ozark scholar who has lived in the mountains for 30 years and kept a card file that eventually filled a trunk. He writes without condescension and also without the solemn intensity of the sociologist. Some of the Ozark signs and sayings he found...
...opinion a woman of the streets. The girl got her car into gear, backed it out, drove ahead of the Buick and then went into reverse. There was a horrible crunch, but she had aimed badly. Now her Oldsmobile had a big hole in the trunk; the Buick was intact...
Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...