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...beach, I have seen the pool and I have seen the Bal Harbour Regency Spa. I never saw the mineral baths, though I saw a lot of wet raisins exiting from a steamy room next to the pool. All day I sat by the pool and slept, intermittently woken up by my grandmother who told me to put on suntan lotion or to turn on my stomach or to say something to prove that I was visiting her and not just there...
...young woman appears from a room across the hall and looks seriously at Norchi. "Chuck, we've got a crisis in the Dalton Room." Norchi is not fazed. "Every year, we introduce a fictitious crisis to the members of the Security Council. They're woken up in the middle of the night and given news flashes about the situation. Sometimes, they come down in their pajamas." Norchi seems pleased with the process. "We keep them there until they can solve it," he notes, "we don't make many friends but it teaches them how to solve problems...
...when the distress signal, "Save Israel," reached him. For the first three days the Israeli propaganda machine had spoken of "crushing the bones of the Egyptians"-and the world mass media simply echoed this. Kissinger had no doubt that we would be defeated until he was woken up by the "Save Israel" message-which was an urgent request for 400 tanks to replace those lost on the Egyptian front -and by a Pentagon report to the effect that the war on the Egyptian front was not proceeding in favor of Israel. He must have heard too that Dayan had collapsed...
...LAST, the first thriller for pre-meds! Chem 20 got you down? Why not take out your frustrations on future patients vicariously, and go see Coma? This movie is also for anyone who has ever woken up in a hospital bed to see a nurse coming at him with a needle, and cried, "What are you doing with that needle?" Of course, by that time the question is academic: she's already got the damned thing in your arm. And what--heh-heh--if her motives aren't altogether honorable, and you awake to find yourself shanghaied, or worse...
...What exactly does this position require of you?" Bowman was asked in his C-entry penthouse suite yesterday afternoon (editor's note-Bowman had to be woken up for the interview...