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Then, while the whole world's press has gone mad in sensationalism after the unhappy events in Sharpeville, you come out with a sober, factual, well-written article of what really went on in this hectic week...
...once, we happy followers of skindiving are not depicted as a slightly mad race apart from the rest of mankind, but as we like to think of ourselves: sober and sensible types enjoying the one last bit of virgin wilderness left in this world. Fortunately, the last is most of the world...
...might appeal to the population." This week Gray, who smokes as many as four packs of Winstons a day (with an occasional Salem), was also puffing away at cigarettes from chalky white, unmarked testing packs. Through his mouth and into his windpipe he rolled the smoke with all the sober concentration of a winetaster. In the blank packs were cigarettes being tested as possible additions to half a dozen new brands that Reynolds already has on hand to put on the market when the time is ripe...
...navy Jeep. The ecstatic press and public hailed him as ''the Gregory Peck of the Indian navy." His penitent wife, demure in a white blouse and a white sari, testified for him. The commander in chief of the navy described Nanavati in court as "honest, sober, efficient, and a man of character.'' Emotional Indian women mailed the commander 100-rupee notes ($21) as contributions toward his defense, and the bills bore the lipstick imprint of their kisses, as well as their names and addresses. Toy counters were crowded with "Nanavati" cap pistols so that Indian small...
Everyman's Problem. As Jon tries to pin Peter down long enough to sober him up and give him another last chance, Endless Road becomes a relentless chase sequence through Chicago's flossy and sleazy bars, plush and fleabag hotels, punctuated with impromptu shackups. Contrary to prevalent opinion, Author Treat argues that the real alcoholic is a man of satyrical urges and astonishing potency. At novel's end, a penitently sober Peter is entraining for dry New Mexico desert country-but with his hand ominously poised on the doorknob...