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Bapa v. Bunya. There are other superstitions, including the suea yant, a red jacket enscribed with Cambodian letters , Which is guaranteed to protect the wearer "against all harm so long as he has faith in the magic jacket. Seven lucky possessors of these jackets in one of Bangkok's northern suburbs recently took advantage of their invulnerability to terrorize the neighborhood. A fortnight ago, some 50 of their fed-up neighbors took axes and dropped in on the seven to test their magic garments. Before the cops arrived three of the seven were dead. But a brisk demand...
...House Bill will no longer permit this. Europe will have to take powdered eggs whether it wants then or not, and will have to give up a billion dollars worth of the goods it needs. ECA's chief, Paul Hoffman, calls the bill a "strait-jacket...
...full partner in the firm of Faber & Faber, he takes his work as publisher as seriously as his work as poet ("writing poetry is not a career," he says). He is known as the firm's best and most prolific writer of book jacket blurbs. He has little sympathy for poets who starve in garrets ("It isn't necessary"), but he frequently helps out of his own pocket* an aspiring poet who submits work...
...that night did nothing to deflate his buoyance. When, at 3:30 a.m., he was declared elected by 21,500 votes, ex-Miner Bevan cried: "This is a great day." Then he introduced his Tory opponent, Grame B. Finlay, a pale-faced figure in a lounge suit and sheepskin jacket. The crowd booed vigorously. Bevan's triumph was sweet indeed as he authoritatively called, "Order, order, we must show what sportsmen...
Then she drove off with her captors. Later she was taken to Las Ventas women's prison on Madrid's outskirts. Her butler stood waiting with her "prison kit," a large suitcase containing grey flannel slacks, leather jacket, woolen undies, sleeping bag, cologne water and salmon silk pajamas. The duchess has been jailed four times since 1947, always keeps her kit ready...