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...unprofitable labor in the mines and then wangles a better job in Johannesburg: houseboy to a baas. But the mistress of the house soon loses patience with a "damn fool Kaffir" who can't tell mushroom soup from slops. She fires him, and Zachariah wanders thereafter, like a bug in a garbage pail, through the vast black slums of Johannesburg. He gets two jobs in succession and is fired from each for no particularly good reason. After a long layoff he allows his wife to take a temporary job as a domestic servant, and one night he stays with...
...daughters, left no Kaffeeklatsch unpercolated; Muriel Humphrey passed out thousands of copies of her celebrated recipe for beef soup. Brother Ted Kennedy gamely made the first ski jump of his career for the cause, and Brother Bob, erstwhile counsel of the Senate's Mc-Clellan Committee, told bug-eyed audiences of farmers his hair-raising tales of the sinister labor racketeers...
...largely past its BEM (bug-eyed monster) and little-green-menace stage, science fiction can look fondly at its own beginnings, and Amis writes knowledgeably of Lucian of Samosata. The Greek writer's True History is an early account of a space voyage (the ship is whirled to the moon by a waterspout), but though fictional it is hardly scientific, even considering the state of science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came...
...Juan Pablo de Lojendio, 53, who is the Marquis of Vellisca and normally the picture of diplomatic decorum, seethed with anger, jumped up and went to the studio. Bursting in, he bellowed: "I demand the microphone!" All Cuba, for which Castro tirades are the standard late late show, watched bug-eyed. Castro, taken aback at first, took charge of the show to shout: "A breach of conduct! You are not in Spain but in the Republic of Cuba." The picture went off the air, but the sound channel carried Lojendio's shout: "I have been slandered! I have been...
...well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco...