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...story, White shuttled back and forth between the French army and the insurgent barricades, on one occasion was held for half an hour by a band of trigger-happy insurgents who feared that publicity would expose them to ultimate government reprisal. Once he had his story, he faced the communications barriers thrown up by French military censorship, not the least of which was that getting to the censor meant climbing 492 steps...
...Soft Touches. Without the massive Stokes (6 ft. 7 in., 235 Ibs.). Twyman has to carry so much of the Royals' load that he shoots all night long, has become what the pros call a "trigger."' But help is coming; next year Cincinnati will get Oscar (''Big O") Robertson (6 ft. 5 in., 198 Ibs.), the talented senior at the University of Cincinnati, who again this year is leading the college scorers (40.7 points a game), has a feather-soft touch...
...dolphin came the same words in a quacking, Donald Ducklike voice, but unmistakable. They were followed by a creditable imitation of the buzz of a transformer and the rattle of a movie camera. The dolphin had associated all these sounds with the pleasure-giving stimulation, and was trying to trigger it again...
...AromaRama process itself, developed by a public relations executive named Charles Weiss, is fairly ingenious. The film carries a "scent track" that transmits cues to an electronic "trigger" that fires a salvo of scent into the theater through the air-conditioning ports. The AromaRama people claim they can reach every nose in the house within two seconds, and remove the odor almost as fast as they release it. The perfumes* are built up on a quick-evaporating base (Freon), and as the air is drawn off for filtering, it is passed over electrically charged baffles that precipitate the aromatic particles...
Illness prevented one of the two scheduled pianists from performing, with a resulting insecurity that will hopefully be rectified by this afternoon (along with a somewhat trigger-happy light board technician). Cecelia Hopkins played the flute obbligatos with assurance...