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...beginning to wax eloquent on the "granitic formations" that absorb moisture and the "confluence of three rivers" that cool the air when a journalist for the newsweekly Le Point whispered "fifty-two to forty-eight" in his ear. Without any noticeable change of expression or vocal inflection, he continued his explanations of cloud formations...
Lectures to teen-agers on the harmful effects of cigarettes most often go in one ear and out the other. So to plug their antismoking message, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided on a role model: Actress Brooke Shields, 15 (Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon and the soon-to-be-released Endless Love). But before Brooke had a chance to give her peers a puffless primer, the proposed $68,000 federal campaign was extinguished. Said HHS Chief of Staff David Newhall III: "I did not have sufficient confidence that the majority of smokers would be discouraged." The announcement...
...Leib's ear for dialogue is keen, his sense of timing acute...
When the Speaker moved back into the House chamber last week for his final plea against Reagan's budget, he passed up his high podium chair for an empty seat on the floor. As he chatted with colleagues who stopped by, O'Neill kept an ear on speakers at the podium. When one of them declared that Reagan's economic program was a disaster for the country, O'Neill clapped his hands quietly. At one point, there was too much noise in the chamber; the Speaker rose and commanded silence. For a moment, he still appeared...
...spotlight. The gift was nothing to snoot at - as a gentleman farmer back home, Runcie oversees 60 prize Berkshires of his own. The latest addition to the Archbishop's porcine parish listened beatifically as Runcie gushed, "I love my pigs." She perked a wary swine's ear, however, when the Archbishop added, "but I don't mind eating them...