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Ibsen himself spent the last six years of his life, unable to write, staring out of his window in Christiania. "Leave that to me," he snapped at a visitor who asked how he felt about God. And one day, when a nurse announced that he was feeling better, the old curmudgeon found the ultimate putdown. "On the contrary!" he said, and died. · Brad Darrach
...Maria Acatitla prison were watching a movie with the prisoners last week when a Bell helicopter, similar in color to the Mexican attorney general's, suddenly clattered into the prison yard. Some of the guards on duty presented arms, supposing that the helicopter had brought an unexpected official visitor. What they got was a different sort of surprise. As the chopper set down on the paving stones, two prisoners dashed out of Cell No. 10. The men were airborne in less than two minutes. One of the most enterprising jailbreaks in modern times had been accomplished without a shot...
...Daaaaa! The thought seemed to cheer her up. Her husband ordered a steak sent up to her room, and after she put it away she bounced up and taught a visitor how to do the shuffle and the shim-sham. Soon she was stomping to the music of an imaginary combo and shaking it up like the great little putter-outer she has always been. "Ta-daaaaa!" she yelled as she reached the Durante closer, her arms opened wide and her green eyes glittering happily through her long soft strawberry locks. Quit show business? Come off it! Just watch...
KUWAIT. "I don't think Kuwait has had a high-level American visitor for some time; they had been asking for one." SAUDI ARABIA. "Of course my visit there comes as a result of the recent visit of King Faisal to Washington. I happened to be sitting next to Faisal at a luncheon at the White House, and he evidenced an interest in having me visit his country if I found it convenient...
...intense, dark-haired man visiting the office of Walter B. Wriston, chairman of the First National City Bank of New York, crisply announced that he was interested in looking into several of the bank's activities. Consumer credit, for example. The visitor suggested that "Citibank's" credit standards might be so restrictive that many black applicants are automatically ineligible for loans. On the other hand, he added, the standards might well be too loose, thereby encouraging people to go dangerously into debt. Wriston, who is rarely without a sense of humor, piped up wryly: "Do I have...