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Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel...
...Book of Genesis, which admittedly takes some explaining. Those "angels" in Genesis 19 were "not necessarily of celestial origin" but were some kind of space men, and the "giants in the earth in those days" who mated with women (Genesis 6:4) clearly refer to beings from out yonder...
...getting married or divorced (four times each), Jessel is working on a novel, The Empty Side of the Bed. Considering that he spends so much time at other people's funerals, it is hard for his friends to avoid the obvious question: When That Great Agent Up Yonder Books Jessel's Last Act, who will deliver the eulogy? As it happens, Jessel is toying with plans for a four-star performance featuring two Los Angeles rabbis, a Roman Catholic archbishop, and Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. Then again, Jessel may simply write...
Four years ago Continental Airlines, a carrier winging westward from Chicago, ruffled some bigger birds in the industry by introducing jet "economy" air fares 20% below coach rates. That blue-yonder experiment helped to attract so many customers that Continental increased its revenues from $63 million in 1961 to last year's $117 million, and other lines quickly followed with an odd lot of special rates. Last week Continental was trying to pare fares again. It asked Civil Aeronautics Board permission to introduce nighttime "adult stand-by fares" one-third cheaper than the economy fare. For any passenger willing...
...decision echoed across France. By last week, neighbors of airports in Bastia, Corsica, and Paris had filed suit, and Air France feared its legal problems were headed into the sacrebleu yonder. Said one official: "In no time at all we are likely to be sued for millions of dollars all over the country." As for the Blue Bird's owner, things were looking up. Not only did he seem likely to get a good hunk of the $400,000 he had sued for, but he had finally succeeded in selling two more apartments-to deaf...