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Awaiting Band Leader Duke Ellington when he arrived in Minsk, the second stop on his five-city concert tour of Russia, were a dozen New York cut T-bone steaks. They had been flown in at the request of the U.S. State Department, which had heard that the Duke was wasting away-at the rate of five pounds per day-on Russian cooking. "This is a lie," roared the Duke. "I weighed about 173 when I left the States. But the way my stomach is sticking out now, I know I weigh a lot more." Besides, he added, "I like...
...groin, rectum and legs with clubs to make them run through a gauntlet of guards, who kicked and beat them. Some inmates fell, he said, and guards chased others into a building. Standing near by, Watson heard "screams and moans and the sounds of clubs hitting flesh and bone." Days later, four outside doctors confirmed reports of brutality...
...some bleak London suburb. He is engulfed by sexual fantasies but terrified when any of his female customers attempt to initiate him. Little wonder. Women for him are a mystery and a threat. They either overwhelm him with bloated lust (like one patron who smothers him in a bone-crushing embrace while passionately discussing football) or exploit him, like Susan (Jane Asher), another attendant at the baths, whose simultaneous taunting and flirting Mike finds irresistible...
...Social Security levies should be postponed until 1973. Walter Heller contends that it was wrong "to feed corporations with the economic raw meat of a $5 billion investment tax credit on top of the $4 billion depreciation give away, and at the same time toss the consumer the small bone of a $2.5 billion speedup in income tax reductions." Robert Nathan calls the tax cuts an "absolute fraud." Their stimulative effects, he believes, will not even take place during the freeze period...
...both feet. But conversation did. The youth, a recent convert to yoga, told Chusid that he often sat on his heels for periods of up to six hours while chanting. The position placed great pressure on the peroneal nerve, which winds about the head of the fibula (outer leg bone) just below the knee. After the youth agreed to do his chanting while standing, his feet, if not his inner tranquillity, gradually returned to normal...