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Said Dale of his list: "I shall not add at this point, as the alarmist school customarily does, that this is 'only a partial list,' because it is all I can think of. I have a hunch that their 'partial' lists are all they can think of too, but let that...
...clusters and strings of precious rocks borrowed from a New York jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested to her that they should quietly run away together. Hope declined, conjectured that cops would soon overtake them...
...mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured bear, the tension of the hunter standing over a seal hole, the heft and hunch of a seal's body resting on an ice floe...
...Yadin disagreed. He knew that the cities of Hazor and Gezer, also attributed to Solomon, had a different kind of wall, and he wondered why Solomon did not build the same style of fortification around all three cities. Following his hunch, he led a group of student-archaeologists to Megiddo. In three days he found what he was looking for: an earlier wall in the style of Hazor and Gezer. This wall, he believes, was really built by Solomon. The later wall and the stables were probably built by Ahab, who became King of Israel 50 years after Solomon...
...Said Truman, when asked if the birth-control controversy would hurt Kennedy's chances: "Why should it? It's a false issue so far as the presidency is concerned. They always get up false issues to break up the Democratic Party before a convention." But, on the hunch that "they" might have a point, his fellow members of the Advisory Council urged creation of a "National Peace Agency," which would study, among other things, "overpopulation, including acceptable methods of dealing with the problems of over-rapid population expansion...