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...drinking coffee in the wardroom when he was suddenly engulfed by water. "I swam to the surface," he recalled, "and found I was still in the wardroom. I got out through a slit in the side and found myself in the ocean, with its surface covered by a six-inch layer of fuel oil." Ten men trapped in the forward section finally forced open a jammed escape hatch and, as they scrambled free, heard men behind them screaming to get out and thrashing in the water-filled hold...
...victories everywhere to get the nomination, and a loss in New Hampshire is unlikely to help him on the Coast. He had to have the moralistic anti-Rockefeller votes as well as those of his own ultra-conservatives to win on March 10. And plucky Senator Smith looks every inch as virtuous as Goldwater facing a divorced man and she has avoided the handicap of Barry's political extremism. Voters seeking to avoid a distasteful choice between the Governor's "sin and the Arizonan's Armageddon may leap for Senator Smith's open arms...
...with cedar lockers blazoning the names of connoisseurs who keep large private stocks: Milton Berle, David Sarnoff, Laurance Rockefeller, the Duke of Windsor. Some customers store up to 10,000 cigars at a time so as not to run low on Dunhill's most expensive cigars, the eight-inch $1 brands that are made from 45% Havana leaf and 55% Cuban seed tobacco grown in Connecticut. Though supplies from Cuba have been cut off, Dunhill's Askanase has found other sources, from Jamaica to the Philippines; besides, he still has enough Havana leaf in Dunhill's huge...
...Sweat. But ordinary laymen need no equipment at all-and precious little time. They may even resculpture their bodies while doing something else without attracting undue attention. To take one inch to three inches off the paunch in a mere month: 1) inhale deeply, pushing out the abdomen as far as possible and holding it there one second; 2) exhale, pull the abdomen in as far as it will go and hold it there for six seconds; 3) repeat six times a day in any position...
Even more novel is the artificial grass of the court itself. It is made by a Japanese patented process originally devised for doormats. The plastic is poured into a square mold with 800 indentations per square inch. When the drying plastic is pulled away, the nubs stick, and stretch into "blades" of grass. Then the squares are laid on an asphalt court, just as a homeowner might lay tile on a kitchen floor. The result is a durable and resilient surface, which is divot-proof, affords better footing and less leg fatigue and keeps both balls and players free from...