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...Jargon. "I am glad to be in the glorious capital of the great Soviet Union," said Gomulka. "Nothing is more important than our fraternal and friendly relations." Then, looking past the microphones, he let his thin smile fade and spoke with deadly earnestness: "The most lasting foundation for such relations are the Leninist principles of equality of rights of small and great nations...
Palabaud has seen the swift ruin of so much beauty that death holds no terror. He remembers how quickly the lovely bronzed Polynesians fade, how at 30 their "faces become shrivelled and deformed . . . and bodies which were formerly shapely either swell or collapse into meagreness." His beautiful Tahitian mistress had come home with him, but in European clothes her soft body loses form and boldness, her sandaled feet seem flat and ugly. Palabaud dies peacefully in a hospital bed, his mind awash with memories of the sea he had always loved. A few shreds of his corpse are sent...
Toward five o'clock, the team begins to fade. The grunts of sheer animal exertion are modulated into long sighs of fatigue. Duffy whistles the men together. "You were logy," he says quietly. "I don't know why-maybe it's the weather. Now we're going to run you, because that's the only way you'll stay in shape. Let's take some wind sprints...
After three days in jail, Weldy was set free when the others backed up his story. Reluctantly, the tabloids did a slow fade-out on the exotic tropical scene, leaving readers to chew on some memorable quotes. Said Actor Wayne: " Weldy is a nice fellow, but I deplore the fact that he is such a poor shot." Said Weldy: "I'm going up the Amazon and get lost." Said Harrison: " I have had enough of the goddamned jungle for the rest of my life." Said Miss Courtney: "I wasn't in love with either of them...
...orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...