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...Brother Fuad's cement plant. Brother Caesar's wife became a busy influence peddler. El Khoury's friend, Henri Pharon, a banker, boss of the taxi drivers' union and owner of a racing stable, was known as the man who could put the fix on any kind of problem...
...years in the Army (partly ferrying supplies from England to Normandy), and returned to the old blank round. Rocky had boxed a bit in the Army; after his return he did some amateur boxing for fun-and broke his thumb. That small misfortune made him. "It cost money to fix the thumb," he recalls, "so I thought I might as well earn some fighting." His first professional fights were in Providence, 30 miles away. To get in condition, he used to walk there...
...precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus. She kept going over land & sea until she reached the Nile...
...feeling for what the other fellow is thinking." Translated into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm, Mrs. Barkley was all for putting...
...been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room and say, 'Pardon me, mother, while I have a fix!' Why don't people leave us alone...