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NEW YORK -— “Let’s havea
weekend in New York,” said
my friend. “Fifth Avenue. The
Met. Tosca. Pavarotti.”

told my friend I once worked in
New York, having spent 17 years
there one autumn.

“When I die they will chisel on
my tombstone ‘IT’S BETTER
THAN BEING IN NEW YORK.’”

“You were in the cheap, danger-
ous end of town.”

“It was downtown Manhattan,
42nd and Lexington, six blocks from
the United Nations.”

“This time it will be Millionaire's
Row. We'll stay at the St. Regis and
use limousines to go to the St.
Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop and
other places you frequent.”
 ‘Tsaid no. He persisted.

“V’'m renting our own jet. There
will be two stewardesses serving lob-
ster tails and peeling the grapes for
six of us while we lie around on
Italian leather lounge chairs.”

“Does the jet have a swimming
pool?”

“No, but a friend I golf with rents

a plane which has exercise machin-
ery installed in one corner of the
cabin.”

“So, be’s got rich enough to go
ona treadmill, Never mind him,
What about yours, If it doesn't have
a swimming pool does it at least
have a Jacuzzi?"

“No.”

“To hell with you and your
Gulfstream jet. I'm geing to have a
holiday | hate travelling ef cheapo.”

You have to talk that way to rich
people. At the time | was standing in
the world's loneliest, remotest and
coldest B.C. Telephone booth in the
wilds of Chilcotin.

My transport was a 1972 Datsun
with windows that won’t crack up
any more.

The German Shorthair Pointer
had been thrashing through ice and
mud after mallards, and he was
moaning about the wind from the
Pole that now blasted in one side of
the cur and out the other.

66 Normal people and
other wretches among the
common folk will by now

have decided that my
friend peddles coke, speed
and heroin and banks in
the Bahamas. 99

When a German Shorthair howls,
you think you’re in Count Dracula
country. Wolves cry when they hear
it. They wish they could moan with
such passion.

ican attest to this because half a
dozen wolves were standing in a ring
around my phone booth and you
could see they were near tears. Of

hat happened
to free speech?

‘Dear Editor:

Re: free speech issue.

What kind of country are we liv-
ing in when one cannot even criti-
cize a Hollywood movie without
getting charged by the Jewish
Congress with “inciting hatred?”

I still remember when people
said in Canada, “It’s a free coun-

Well, these were the good old
times before the Jewish community
got so much power that they are
telling the Canadian courts what
and what not to do.

The Jewish movie industry in

Hollywood has been pumping out
hundreds of hate movies for the last
50 years.

It is strange that they have never
been charged with hate mongering.

The few people who had the
guts to speak up like Doug Collins
were ridiculed and charged with
inciting hatred.

~ Well, many of us know who the

real hatemongers are.

(P.S. Doug, keep up the good
work.)

Fred Juert
Vancouver

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course, Wolves are overly sensitive
creatures, unlike New Yorkers.

“Why should [ Ay to New York
to see Toscee) Don't you know Tosca
doesn’t have a happy ending?"

“Pavarotti,” he said. “Also big
apples. The city’s famous for big
apples.”

What the hell. After a few weeks
of moosemeat and huckleberries and
changing Datsun tires with a cranky
jack on a hill which threatens to top-
ple the car on you, during al] of
which time you nest in a measured
foot of iced mud, apples look good.
Even New York looks good.

Some may wonder that I have a
friend who charters jets to flit around
this continent. I do too.

In Chilcotin, [ don't associate
with that class of people. They aren’t
here to associate. I trust you can find
your way through that sentence. In
Chilcotin, people are like me, all
lying in mud changing busted tires.

Thave a rich friend because of the
nature of the column-writing busi-
ness. You meet a wide. variety of
people, including a lot who have
escaped normalcy.

Normal people and other wretch-

“es among the common folk will by

now have decided that my friend
peddles coke, speed and heroin and
banks in the Bahamas.

Drug pedlars, hockey players and
rock stars are about the only people
who can afford the conspicuous con-
sumption of Caspian caviar at $1,200
to the pound.

Not Roberto. He grew up in a
blue collar part of Little Italy and
while some of his relatives went into
the Mafia and got shot Bob went to
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and got educated.

When he Jaunched a computer
company in association with some
other idiots, [ told him, in the friend-
ly spirit of helpfulness, that comput-
ers were a passing fad, like hula
hoops, and that he should try to work
his way up to assistant manager of a

McDonald's. He wouldn't listen.
The stock his company issued at
one dollar has divided and subdivid-
ed like a flu virus and is now worth
about $40 per share. (Did [ invest?

_is going to keep splitting and ihe

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attain the speed of light. This will be
soon after it reaches the point where
it could pay off all the Canadian
national debt and provide medicine
for the entire population of Ethiopia.

, betsy
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