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Lesson No. 2. Some Australians had thought that last December's steamy, 100° Melbourne weather would melt the starch right out of the challenging U.S. Davis Cup stars, Kramer & Schroeder. The starch oozed out of the Australians instead. They lost five straight matches (and the cup). But instead of acting crushed, the Australians got a gleam in their eye. Sir Norman Brookes, boss of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association and onetime Wimbledon champion, issued a communiqué: "The aggressive type of tennis played by your men should have a great influence on our future stars...
...love story, which was frail stuff in the novel, too. The hero's adulterous affair, which was originally a succession of mildly immoral, quite dull interludes, has been scrubbed shiny clean by the conversion of the gal into an impeccably, impossibly genteel widow woman. Gable contrives to melt this Pallas Athena, Deborah Kerr, by fondling her tots and growling to her when they are not around, "A weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That's for us..." And again, instead of allowing the disgusted hero to renounce...
...want at this time. Said a State Department official: "Russia is just as worried." Washington's intelligence reported that the Communists had assembled an international brigade near the Greek border. The U.S. hoped that when Russia saw that its bluff had been called, the brigade would melt away. The tension would last until U.S. arms for the Greek Army began to arrive in quantity-in about 30 days...
...tomb, the poor cooked their free camel and ox meat on great bonfires. The big war drums boomed through the night. After seven days of merrymaking, the husbands would claim their brides, the British could sigh with relief. For then the Mahdi's dervishes, wives and all, would melt back into the deserts and fields of the Sudan...
...foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year's end and the present boom in U.S. foreign trade may melt away overnight...