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...game ended, and the crowd streamed for the exits. President Coty stepped into his car and departed. Behind him at the curb Ali Chekkal stood chatting with the director general of the Paris police. Unnoticed, a shabby young Algerian slipped up behind them. He put his hand in his jacket pocket and fired. Ali Chekkal staggered and fell. A retired policeman standing nearby grabbed the assassin by the hair and flung him to the ground before he could shoot again. But a few hours later Ali Chekkal was dead...
Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...
Kent Hooper grabbed a flashlight and raced to the wellshaft. At the bottom, 21 feet down, his son was wedged feet first in a clammy cavity less than ten inches wide. Benny's red wool jacket had been jerked over his head by the fall; one hand was stretched pitifully upward. "Daddy," he whimpered...
...groaned. Woodson pillowed Benny on his chest and was dragged back out of the pipe by his ankles. The incredulous cry, "He's alive!", swept through the crowd. Benny, who was found later to have contracted mild pneumonia in the 55° cold, owed his life to his jacket, which created an air pocket over his head, and to the skill and dedication of a community that was determined he should...
...final word: the publishers have seen fit to place on the front of the dust jacket part of Graves' own description of his book as follows: "A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging." None of these are described in the titillating detail which might be expected. The book, however, is a good study of a bad character, and another, though tiny, star in Mr. Graves' crown...