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Every Yugoslav, save one, feels deep stirrings of patriotism when the Great Whale is caught. And when it is brought to Belgrade for the general astonishment, the whole city, roused by deeper stirrings, turns out to praise its decaying corpse...
Penniless bookkeepers excitedly tally the whale's earning powers; children marvel at its youth and strength; bureaucrats boast of its bulky contribution to the economy. Barren women, seeing the whale, nudge each other and say: "There's a man for you!" Only Despic Rade, a civil service clerk, remains apart, at first wishing only to ignore the whale: "What's the whale to me?" But adoration for Big Mac sweeps up around him everywhere, and his outspoken feelings about whales soon darken...
...Worse, whale-worship breeds conspiracies...
...blares from a portable phonograph. Precisely at 2:30 p.m., Liston announces his arrival with an electrifying rat-a-tat on the lightweight "speed bag." He begins to shadowbox, sliding lithely about the ring, huge fists darting out at imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest at his sparring partners. "Time!" again, and Liston switches his attack to the heavy punching bag. Then he skips rope (to the tune of Night Train), winds up his workout with a dramatic, neck-wrenching headstand on a rubbing table...
...hearing of the Senate's airpower subcommittee, when Washington's Democratic Senator "Scoop" Jackson and then Defense Secretary Charles Wilson got into a name-calling argument. Ervin busted in: "I've always been able to sympathize with what Jonah is reputed to have said after the whale threw him off on dry land after three days: 'If you'd kept your mouth shut, this thing wouldn't have happened.' " Ervin's comment may have been irrelevant to the issue-but both Jackson and Wilson calmed down...