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...Last year I stopped smoking. After six months, I wound up an overweight nervous wreck, suffering from compulsive eating habits, extreme tension, unexplained chest cramps, a sudden rush of gum and teeth problems, and facing a costly replacement in clothing. Two months ago, I resumed smoking and the chest and dental problems promptly vanished, I am losing the excess poundage, eat normally, and most of the tension has departed...
...because of its strategic location, partly because its people are free, unselfconscious, build for the pure pleasure of doing big things. Dallas, honestly but rigidly ruled by a business oligarchy, has been fretting about its image since long before Nov. 22. It quarrels with nearby Fort Worth, thumps its chest about its free enterprise-then complains that Houston gets more federal...
...antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped and swollen to his chin"), who ends his virginity with poor, sickly Mrs. Charpolsky--from downstairs...
...jestern, or horselaugh opera, isn't really funny. It isn't really funny to see two overage destroyers (Martin and Sinatra) wallowing in floods of booze. It isn't really funny to see two top-heavy tootsies (Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress) involved in a tasteless chest contest. And it isn't really funny to hear line after line that develops a double meaning from a single idea...
King preaches endlessly about nonviolence, but his protest movements often lead to violence. He himself has been stabbed in the chest, and physically attacked three more times; his home has been bombed three times, and he has been pitched into jail 14 times. His mail brings him a daily dosage of opinion in which he is by turn vilified and glorified. One letter says: "This isn't a threat but a promise-your head will be blown off as sure as Christ made green apples." But another ecstatically calls him a "Moses, sent to lead his people...