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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.)

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“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-

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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

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