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...public-address system with a rhinestone-studded case, and started hiring out as a single at lodge dances for $3 a night. He worked over his technique meticulously, tirelessly. "My theory was to learn by trial and error," says Sinatra. "Not sing in the shower, but really operate. Execute...
...under licence. But Yugoslavia is a peasant country and lacks the skilled labor to make jet planes. Since the U.S. economic aid program is designed to provide Yugoslavia with a well-balanced and well-timed economic expansion, the U.S. politely refused Tito's request. It also continued to shower down on Tito F-84 jet fighters, T-33 jet trainers, reconnaissance and transport planes, guns, tanks, jeeps and patrol vessels, to the tune of at least half a billion dollars. The U.S. also chipped in another half-billion dollars for Yugoslavia's economic needs, and made it possible...
...that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. As he stepped out of the Columbine III, the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette of microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming to have such a reception . . . It's really great...
...last week at the bleach factory opposite Vourlon, a watchman's 15-year-old daughter spotted four strangers on the premises, where she lives with her parents. "What are you doing?" she asked. "We're policemen," they answered, "and we just went inside to take a shower." At least part of the answer was true: calm as could be, the four had indeed been washing in the factory shower room. What they didn't tell the girl was that, along with 23 companions, they had entered the shower room through a 55-ft.-long tunnel, dug under...
...continually sighs to be in combat, fills the role of a young Mr. Chips; the crew's schoolboy pranks are only thinly disguised as adult antics. Even when the sailors, with binoculars glued to their eyes, are squirming with delight at the glimpse of a nurse taking a shower, it is merely boyish high spirits rather than voyeurism. Similarly, an unexpected shore leave on the island of Elysium has no more reality than the island's name: though the crew is alleged to have got drunk and disorderly, to have broken up a dinner-dance, disrobed...