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...plunge ahead anyway, haggling out the new terms under which one-fifth of the world's population will live. Perhaps because Mountbatten is one of their primary sources, Collins and Lapierre cast him in heroic mold. The great-grandson of Queen Victoria faces his task with a stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one; he relishes the pomp of the viceroy's office while struggling to give it away...
...come 200 miles just to avoid Curt Gowdy's voice. I heard American Opticals named Larry Barnett Man of the Year. Hey Rose, you stiff, go back to middle America. Hey Eddy bring me back a beah will...
Cooperstown, N.Y. From the start Stengel had the gift that Merlin enjoyed in The Once and Future King: he began decrepit and grew younger. The man who was too stiff to play at 35 was loose enough to manage in the majors and minors, learning, listening, coining the tortured syntax that would soon be labeled Stengelese. He perpetually refused to recognize players by name, only as "my big guy" or "that fella on first"; he told nonstop, outrageous stories and then claimed, "You could look...
...have? How many films did you make? When did you make The Blue Angel? What do you think about women's lib?* Inevitably, someone broke the rules by asking if Dietrich ever planned to make another picture, perhaps her life-story. "Oh dear, I'd be bored stiff," came the reply...
...have called for a crash program to develop alternate sources of energy. Presidential Hopeful Henry Jackson of Washington State last week needled Ford by congratulating him on having abandoned the idea that reliance on the free market is the solution of all energy problems. But the plan also faces stiff opposition, and not only from conservatives. Environmentalists fear it will lead to a great expansion of nuclear power, and many Democrats are angered at the thought of giving oil companies the loan guarantees that the Administration has denied to financially pressed cities...