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...acclaim. Says Critic Jean de Beer: "In a few years, Audiberti works will be in even the most elementary textbooks for the study of the French language." Unmoved by either condemnation or praise, the stocky, balding Audiberti roams about his country retreat in flabby corduroys and an old suede jacket, working on a new play (La Brigitta) for Actress Françoise Spira. "Very difficult, very difficult," says Audiberti to a visitor. "In fact, I think you're sitting on it. It's the story of a successful woman of 30 who comes in contact with herself...
Outwardly stern and arrogant, inwardly trembling, the two lads stand face to face in a room that smells of beer, blood and disinfectant. Each is dressed in a padded leather torso jacket, but except for steel-mesh goggles and noseguard, the head is vulnerable. Now each lad lofts a yard-long rapier with blunt point but sharp edges. At the umpire's "Los!" (go), they slash away-again, again, again-steel against steel for 15 minutes. The noise, astonishingly, is deafening. When steel slashes flesh, a doctor rushes in for repairs. Everyone happily retires to toast the prize...
...definite foreign accent, thought Biff. The small foreigner was now attempting to dust off Biff's jacket...
...Lady was stunning in a white satin sleeveless dress embossed with brightly colored flowers into which tiny pearls were sewn. She wore long diamond and emerald earrings and a diamond hairclip." Another fashionplate was Harlem's own Representative Adam Clayton Powell, strolling around in "a green Austrian evening jacket with a black velvet collar and, for buttons, Franz Josef coins...
...closing the gap in the low-yield range. This gives the Russians great military flexibility and enables them to place more powerful warheads on smaller missiles. The top Russian test blast of 58 megatons would have yielded 100 megatons if it had not been encased in a lead jacket, and U.S. experts estimate that its air-dropped device weighed only 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. If that estimate is correct, the Russians could easily refine the device into a 100-megaton warhead for one of their giant and crude ICBMs (known to U.S. intelligence men as "the Beast...