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Nevertheless, the report bore little resemblance to the sizzling exposé for which Macmillan's critics had hoped. In a post-Denning TV attack on the government, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson rehashed the weary charge that the Tories have debased public morality. As for the public, most Britons were so happily absorbed in Denning's brisk, chatty account of upper-crust sinning that many TV sets stayed dark...
...they lined up: Clark and Gurney in front, a snarling pack of Offies stretched out behind. The starter's flag dropped-and the race seemed over before it really began. Blasting nearly full-bore into the shallow-banked turns, the lighter (by 600 Ibs.) Lotus-Fords made the U.S. cars look like dump trucks. After 20 miles, Clark and Gurney were already lapping the slowest Offies. Parnelli Jones gave up the chase with magneto failure on the 43rd lap. U.S.A.C. Sprint Champion Roger Mc-Cluskey rammed into California's Chuck Hulse, and both Offies cracked into the retaining...
Punts seem to bore most casual football fans. Regardless of how far the favorite eleven may boot the ball, most partisan rooters see it only as an unproductive surrender of the football. Booming opposition kicks similarly fall to arouse much distress...
...name just below the mast. Up the mast they hoisted a homemade U.S. flag, stitched from fragments of blouses, skirts and underthings. It had 60 stars. "The more stars," said a woman, "the safer we thought we'd be." A Cuban patrol boat trailed the H-11, but bore off, apparently discouraged by the flag. The ship's water supply grew short; there were 100 tins of Russian meat aboard, but it had spoiled. Almost everyone was seasick. One woman had a heart attack; a pregnant woman started hemorrhaging...
...sells for 13,000 old francs to a merchant in Tangier. Then there is a wife; he seems to have some notion that he has murdered her. Has he or hasn't he? By this time, the reader may feel that he has been trapped by a prodigious bore telling about a funny dream he had on the way to the club...