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...tight little isle could one find a prostitute like Miss Privet. She and a postman could discuss their respective employments with complete propriety and professional objectivity. Miss Privet had little use for either sex or men, nor was she especially drawn to marriage. And when Mrs. Lessing asked her point-blank if she didn't like sex, she replied indignantly: "If you're going to talk dirty, I'm not interested...
...varsity's attack, on the other hand, forced Bulldog goalie Ted Forstmann to come up with 45 saves, many of them on shots made at point-blank range. Forstmann withstood perfectly a rather hectic minute and a half when overlapping penalties in the second period left his team two men short, but undid all his good work a few moments later with a leg-slide that kicked in a Crimson shot which otherwise would probably have missed the cage...
Eager though he was to give his Cabinet a bipartisan look, President Kennedy made sure that his prospective Republican selections did not intend to use their secretarial posts as steppingstones to future political advancement-particularly as Republicans running against Democrats. Kennedy point-blank asked Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon whether he still had hopes of running for either Governor or Senator of New Jersey, got assurance that Dillon was willing to sacrifice his personal political ambitions. Until he selected Republican Dillon and Independent Bob McNamara for the New Frontier, Kennedy thought seriously about retaining Eisenhower Appointee Thomas Gates as Defense Secretary...
...blood between two old men, Harry Truman, 76, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, came to a boil again. On a TV chitchat program in Chicago, Truman was asked point-blank if he had ever been pressured to use the A-bomb during the Korean fighting. Taking dead aim at the general, whom he removed from his Korean-war command in 1951, Truman replied: "Yes, MacArthur wanted to do that ... He wanted to bomb China and Eastern Russia and everything else." Last week came a counter-volley from MacArthur. "Completely false [and] fantastic." said he. "Atom bombing...
...relaxation in the old days, Moore and Teammate Tom Johnson used to get a puck, square off a few yards apart and fire point-blank shots at each other. This palled after Blake threatened to slap a $100 fine on them each time blood was drawn. But Moore is still a leader of the violent horseplay that the Canadiens use to lower tension. One standard trick: the "initiation ceremony," in which a rookie-and an occasional sportswriter-is seized by the entire squad of naked bellowing Canadiens as he saunters into the locker room. The victim can count himself lucky...