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Despite the bottled-in-Bond flavor, the scene actually took place in wartime Washington. It was recounted recently in London's The People by its heroine, a Mata Hari from Minnesota who worked for British Intelligence under the code name Cynthia. Her real name: Elizabeth Pack. Using the boudoir as Ian Fleming's hero uses a Beretta, she was described by her wartime boss as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." After the war Cynthia married her onetime prey, the ardent Charles, and with him retreated to a remote 10th century French chateau where she died last...
...discovered that it made virtually no difference whether the men were short or tall, black or white, native or foreign-born, married or single, gluttons for fried food or abstainers, bald or shockheaded, circumcised or not. The death rate ran consistently about twice as high among heavy smokers (a pack a day or more) as among nonsmokers...
...artificial hand and forearm to the patient's upper arm. The plastic strap secured to the stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand are "the works": an amplifier to magnify the body...
...again. In Rabat, where Hassan was greeted like a conquering hero by 1,000 warriors on horseback, the Moroccan government broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and recalled its ambassadors to Egypt and Syria because of their "extremely hostile attitude." Some 350 Egyptian teachers in Morocco were told to pack up and return home. In Algiers the mood was equally ugly. Although both sides had agreed to end their exchange of virulent propaganda, Ben Bella warned Hassan in a two-hour harangue that the struggle would continue between his type of socialism, which he evidently hopes to extend...
...comes in a box. "The reader," explain the instructions, "is requested to shuffle these pages like a pack of cards. The order the pages then assume will orient X's life." But who will orient the reader? For the pages are unnumbered, and X himself is never referred to except in the instructions. He does not speak. He is never described. He is an unmoved viewer of objective scenes into whose visions only the barest and rarest hints of emotion are allowed to creep-resignation at being yoked to Marianne, his mercilessly neurotic French wife; pain at the loss...