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...Pierre made a pilgrimage to a quiz program, Quitte ou Double (Double or Nothing). He was accepted as a contestant and after a few questions had a stack of francs. Yes, he said, he would try another question. "What is the meaning of F.A.O.?" the master of ceremonies asked. "Food and Agriculture Organization," answered the priest. "Right. Do you want to go on?" asked the M.C. Abbé Pierre made a rapid calculation. "No," he said. The Abbé had 256,000 francs ($730), and the junk business had its first truck...
...hungry "sickle club" of teen-age boys. Pacing the pack is Marlon Brando, the wild one of the title, an actor whose sullen face, slurred accents and dream-drugged eye have made him a supreme portrayer of morose juvenility. The motorized wolves burst into the small town of Wrightsville, stack their machines along the curb, and pile into the local saloon to look for some action. They get it, and so does Wrightsville. The audience sits frozen with a growing horror as the abscess of violence swells and swells until the watcher almost cries out for it to burst...
...Credited, respectively, to Lieut. Colonel E. L. Hoffman (1926); Major General Albert Hegen-berger (1934); Aircraft Maker Donald W. Douglas (1935); General Carl Spaatz (1944); Pilot "Chuck" Yeager, Designer John Stack and Manufacturer Lawrence D. Bell, jointly...
...mother's and a big welcome from the citizens of Berkeley. At week's end, Dean got off a cable to Syngman Rhee, asking clemency for the two South Koreans under indictment for betraying him to the Communists, and began to answer a three-foot stack of mail-most of it from parents of soldiers still listed as missing in action. For the hero of Taejon, it was the end of a long and harrowing journey...
...said ominously: "I got a funny feeling." "What do you mean?" asked Hughes. "When you live like I do," said Johnson, "you get these kind of feelings and you play them." Suddenly, after talking some more, Hughes heard "the damnedest clatter on the phone, as if someone took a stack of quarters and poured them into the coin box in spurts. The phone went dead...