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...sinuous as a salamander, the young woman flexed her junior-miss body, tossed her carefully . tousled strato-cumulus hairdo, and took a long drag on a Kool. "I've done lots of lousy films, but I hoped they would be good," she said. "Now I've done two pictures I know are good, and it's affected my whole life. For the first time I come home after work tired but exhilarated, instead of tired and depressed...
...Come to the Second Annual Ocean City Riot." At Wildwood, N.J., where merrymaking teen-agers did $1,500 worth of damage to one hotel, police arrested 160 over the weekend, imposed $6,000 worth of fines for disorderly conduct. At Clermont, Ind., near the scene of the national drag-racing championship, liquor stores were closed on Sunday by state law, but 150 hot-rodders surged through the streets yelling "We want booze." More than 75 state police and sheriff's deputies were called up to control the mob. In the Cape Cod resort towns of Falmouth and Hyannis...
Already badly buffeted in the battle for the commercial jet market (TIME, Aug. 18), giant General Dynamics Corp. last week conceded that it may have to ground its Convair 990 before the plane ever goes into production. Reason: the 990 has developed a mysterious "drag" that keeps it from hitting the promised 640-m.p.h. cruising speed that would make it the world's fastest jet transport. Wind-tunnel tests to be completed next month will provide the data to determine whether the time and expense of eliminating the drag will be too great to bear...
There is also the ever present aura of fear. As one refugee put it: "The police no longer drag people out of their houses in the middle of the night. But the agents are still everywhere. You sit in a movie house watching a film, and suddenly the lights go on and you wait while the Vopos walk down the aisle looking everyone over. You wonder who they are after. When they motion to someone to get up and go with them, you relax. But the next time it could be you ... I couldn't take that any more...
...chairman, soon took on the added job of handling the huge U.S. & Foreign Securities Corp. Dillon managed both jobs with apparent ease-and actually doubled Dillon, Read's investment portfolios in six years. "Anybody else who treated Dillon, Read as a part-time job would have been a drag on us," recalls a partner in the firm. "But Douglas would sit down with all the documents of a transaction, and in 20 minutes he'd have a real grasp of the problem. It was incredible...