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That was last week. This morning before breakfast I hardly made it to the basin, because on the way I was urged "not to be a pill," learned the name of two other girls who weren't pills, and found out that the voting booths were the places where "particular people congregated." Diving into the wrong mailbox by mistake, I yanked out a package full of candy corn instead of the letter I was expecting from my insurance company. This was all mute evidence of a vastly vivacious and normal group of girls battling for the honor to lead...
...with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew away. While her pilot boat almost lost her in the fog, Florence's father took one pill after another...
...Bitter Pill. San Marino's casino, its hotels and movie houses stood empty. The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government. The government had to borrow money to pay its employees, soon was issuing I.O.U.s instead of wages. Three hundred San Marinese applied for immigration visas to the U.S. Then the Communist government quit. Condemning the Communists' "stupid and egotistic policy," the legislature called for a new election, last week set up a bipartisan regency council to talk terms with Italy. Italy wouldn't budge...
Said Gino Giacomini, the republic's Foreign Secretary (and a Socialist): "They offend the dignity and the autonomy of our republic. Dear friend, it is a very bitter pill." The republic had to swallow it. At week's end, San Marino restored its law against gambling, shut up its casino. Demo-Christian Leader Teodoro Lonfernini found a little to cheer him: "We may not have much money, but at least we have had a good housecleaning...
...blind hero so easily, Bright Victory is even more superficial in an over-tricky subplot that as glibly poses and solves the Negro problem. At best an uneven treatment of a touching subject, the movie courts an audience that may have found The Men too disturbingly bitter a pill; some moviegoers undoubtedly will prefer its soothing blend of easy sentiment and honey-smooth solutions...